Serious A217 crash in Sutton on 22 December 1979 at 08:55 involving a car

A car crashed on the A217 in Sutton at 08:55 on Saturday 22 December 1979. The 29-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 22 Dec 1979; Saturday, 08:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LMILE15
Council area: Sutton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 217
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Female, 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 197901LMILE15 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.