Serious A4020 crash in Hillingdon on 29 December 1979 at 16:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A4020 in Hillingdon at 16:55 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTQLE61
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 61, 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 197901LTQLE61 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1979.