Unclassified road crash in Barnet on 29 December 1979 at 10:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Barnet at 10:40 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1979; Saturday, 10:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LTKIX00
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 197901LTKIX00 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.