Serious A40 crash in Ealing on 29 December 1979 at 10:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Ealing at 10:15 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The male driver of vehicle 2 and a female passenger in vehicle 2 were seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet road with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTKDE76
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, 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 197901LTKDE76 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1979.