Serious A23 crash in Lambeth on 30 December 1979 at 15:15 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 15:15 on Sunday 30 December 1979. The 26-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were seriously injured and a 4-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LUPDC92
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 197901LUPDC92 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1979.