Unclassified road crash in Sutton on 21 December 1979 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sutton at 17:30 on Friday 21 December 1979. A 65-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1979
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LLRGW15
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 65, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 197901LLRGW15 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sutton road accident statistics for 1979.