C road crash in Newham on 30 December 1979 at 06:10 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Newham at 06:10 on Sunday 30 December 1979. A 45-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 06:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LUGCP76
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197901LUGCP76 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1979.