B519 crash in Haringey on 21 December 1979 at 19:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the B519 in Haringey at 19:30 on Friday 21 December 1979. The 56-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1979; Friday, 19:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LLTGL13
Council area: Haringey
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 519
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 56, 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 197901LLTGL13 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1979.