Unclassified road crash in Ealing on 30 December 1979 at 05:20 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Ealing at 05:20 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 30 Dec 1979; Sunday, 05:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LUFEW77
Council area: Ealing
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 35, 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 197901LUFEW77 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1979.