A20 crash in Greenwich on 28 December 1979 at 06:30 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A20 in Greenwich at 06:30 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 61-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 06:30
Vehicles: 2; Car and lorry
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LSGGC64
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 20
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Stop sign

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: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 61, 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 197901LSGGC64 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1979.