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Serious B303 crash in Lambeth on 29 December 1979 at 15:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the B303 in Lambeth at 15:00 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 22-year-old female passenger and a 23-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and the 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Dec 1979
Saturday, 15:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
3
2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197901LTPAI91
Council area
Lambeth
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
303
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Other
Road surface
Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 197901LTPAI91 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1979.