A11 crash in Newham on 27 December 1979 at 21:30

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the A11 in Newham at 21:30 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 21:30
Vehicles: 1; Other vehicle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRVGD78
Council area: Newham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 11
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
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 197901LRVGD78 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.