A104 crash in Redbridge on 25 December 1979 at 02:55 involving a car

A car crashed on the A104 in Redbridge at 02:55 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 17-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 02:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LPCLD48
Council area: Redbridge
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 104
Road type: Single carriageway
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: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 17, 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 197901LPCLD48 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1979.