Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 10 December 1981 at 02:00 involving a car

A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A10 in Hackney at 02:00 on Thursday 10 December 1981. The 52-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 10 Dec 1981; Thursday, 02:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and van
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LACAC40
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 10
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Waiting to go ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Male, aged 52, 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 198101LACAC40 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1981.