Serious A40 crash in Hillingdon on 28 December 1979 at 02:20 involving a van
A van crashed on the A40 in Hillingdon at 02:20 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1979
- Friday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LSCEE66
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 197901LSCEE66 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1979.