A113 crash in Epping Forest on 29 December 1979 at 16:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A113 in Epping Forest at 16:00 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTQAF67
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 113
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 197901LTQAF67 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1979.