A5100 crash in Barnet on 28 December 1979 at 21:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5100 in Barnet at 21:15 on Friday 28 December 1979. A 24-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 21:15
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LSVDF02
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5100
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear seat passenger

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 197901LSVDF02 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.