Serious A112 crash in Newham on 27 December 1979 at 17:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A112 in Newham at 17:00 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 17:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRRAD77
Council area: Newham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 112
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

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
Turning right
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 197901LRRAD77 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.