Serious unclassified road crash in Epping Forest on 30 December 1979 at 11:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 11:40 on Sunday 30 December 1979. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LULIX63
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 197901LULIX63 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.