A404 crash in Hillingdon on 22 December 1979 at 23:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A404 in Hillingdon at 23:10 on Saturday 22 December 1979. The 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 1, a 76-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and an 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LMXCE61
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 197901LMXCE61 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.