A105 crash in Haringey on 28 December 1979 at 21:35 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A105 in Haringey at 21:35 on Friday 28 December 1979. A 70-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 21:35
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LSVHF17
Council area: Haringey
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 105
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility

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 197901LSVHF17 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1979.