M25 crash in Runnymede on 3 December 1986 at 17:38 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the M25 in Runnymede at 17:38 on Wednesday 3 December 1986. The 19-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40643, longitude -0.53996, in the TW20 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198645NA00503
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1988.
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 2 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198845NA00283
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 5 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200645RU95916
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 15 July 2012
10 m awayRef 201245RU72069
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 13 January 2017
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Serious
Triumph Speed Master 865 crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 2 August 2019
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Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 4 November 2023
20 m awayRef 2023451370537
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198645NA00503 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1986.