A1208 crash in Tower Hamlets on 31 December 1979 at 20:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A1208 in Tower Hamlets at 20:55 on Monday 31 December 1979. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1979
- Monday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LVULC55
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1208
- 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
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 197901LVULC55 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 1979.