Unclassified road crash in Newham on 27 December 1979 at 13:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newham at 13:15 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 20-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRNDV77
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 197901LRNDV77 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1979.