Serious unclassified road crash in Westminster on 29 December 1979 at 12:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 12:10 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 30-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 36-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTMCU19
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 197901LTMCU19 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 1979.