Serious C road crash in Bexley on 26 December 1979 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Bexley at 00:20 on Wednesday 26 December 1979. A 49-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Dec 1979
- Wednesday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LQAEP88
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 197901LQAEP88 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 1979.