M25 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 28 April 1987 at 16:29 involving a car
A car crashed on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead at 16:29 on Tuesday 28 April 1987. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Apr 1987
- Tuesday, 16:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25765, longitude -0.2129, in the KT20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198745ED00129
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 2019.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 23 December 2019
14 m awayRef 2019450912543
Slight
Leyland crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 15 July 1996
14 m awayRef 199645WM00049
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 6 November 1989
20 m awayRef 198945ED00496
Slight
Volvo S80 crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 26 February 2016
26 m awayRef 2016450049007
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 3 February 2004
36 m awayRef 200445MO48552
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 29 November 2025
38 m awayRef 2025451675892
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, 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 198745ED00129 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 1987.