Serious B2217 crash in Sutton on 18 December 1981 at 14:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B2217 in Sutton at 14:55 on Friday 18 December 1981. A 69-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 18 Dec 1981; Friday, 14:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LIOLK14
Council area: Sutton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 2217
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198101LIOLK14 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sutton road accident statistics for 1981.