Serious B467 crash in Hillingdon on 21 December 1979 at 20:50 involving a car

A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B467 in Hillingdon at 20:50 on Friday 21 December 1979. The 29-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 21 Dec 1979; Friday, 20:50
Vehicles: 2; Car and other vehicle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LLUKK69
Council area: Hillingdon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 467
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 29, 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 197901LLUKK69 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1979.