Serious A215 crash in Croydon on 28 December 1980 at 23:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A215 in Croydon at 23:20 on Sunday 28 December 1980. A 21-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 dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 28 Dec 1980; Sunday, 23:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198001LSXEE00
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 215
Road type: Single carriageway
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
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 198001LSXEE00 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.