Serious A406 crash in Barnet on 31 December 1979 at 23:05 involving a car

A car crashed on the A406 in Barnet at 23:05 on Monday 31 December 1979. A 15-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1979; Monday, 23:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LVXBF08
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 406
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 50 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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 15, 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 197901LVXBF08 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1979.