Serious unclassified road crash in Hertsmere on 16 December 1981 at 20:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hertsmere at 20:00 on Wednesday 16 December 1981. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 16 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 20:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LGUAX37
Council area: Hertsmere
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Moving off
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 40, 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 198101LGUAX37 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1981.