Serious A107 crash in Hackney on 14 December 1981 at 09:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A107 in Hackney at 09:15 on Monday 14 December 1981. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 14 Dec 1981; Monday, 09:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LEJDC40
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 107
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
U-turn
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 198101LEJDC40 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.