Serious B177 crash in Redbridge on 27 December 1979 at 12:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B177 in Redbridge at 12:15 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 40-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and a 41-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were seriously injured and the 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRMDJ43
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 177
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 41, 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 197901LRMDJ43 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.