A237 crash in Sutton on 25 December 1979 at 03:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A237 in Sutton at 03:20 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. The 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 32-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1979
- Tuesday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LPDEE15
- Council area
- Sutton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 237
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 197901LPDEE15 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.