Serious unclassified road crash in Redbridge on 29 December 1979 at 12:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Redbridge at 12:15 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTMDV41
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, 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 197901LTMDV41 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1979.