A23 crash in Croydon on 25 December 1980 at 21:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A23 in Croydon at 21:00 on Thursday 25 December 1980. The 35-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1980; Thursday, 21:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198001LPVAE07
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 23
Speed limit: 30 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: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 16, 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 198001LPVAE07 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Croydon road accident statistics for 1980.