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A1000 crash in Barnet on 27 December 1979 at 19:50 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A1000 in Barnet at 19:50 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 52-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 2-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly 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
Slight
Date
27 Dec 1979
Thursday, 19:50
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197901LRTKF00
Council area
Barnet
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1000
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 (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 2, 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 197901LRTKF00 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1979.