C road crash in Redbridge on 27 December 1979 at 22:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Redbridge at 22:50 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRWKP48
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 197901LRWKP48 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1979.