Serious A1000 crash in Hertsmere on 30 December 1979 at 00:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A1000 in Hertsmere at 00:15 on Sunday 30 December 1979. A 16-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Serious
Date: 30 Dec 1979; Sunday, 00:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LUADF35
Council area: Hertsmere
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1000
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: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 197901LUADF35 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1979.