A404 crash in Brent on 27 December 1979 at 16:10 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the A404 in Brent at 16:10 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 1-year-old male pedestrian and a 24-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRQCE87
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 404
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 1, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
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 197901LRQCE87 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 1979.