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

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnet at 19:50 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 63-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 19:50
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRTKX06
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
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
59 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 197901LRTKX06 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.