A212 crash in Croydon on 29 December 1980 at 23:20 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A212 in Croydon at 23:20 on Monday 29 December 1980. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1980; Monday, 23:20
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198001LTXEE06
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 212
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 20, 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 198001LTXEE06 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.