Serious A237 crash in Merton on 19 December 1981 at 10:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A237 in Merton at 10:00 on Saturday 19 December 1981. A 69-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 19 Dec 1981; Saturday, 10:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LJKAE26
Council area: Merton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 237
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: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, 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 198101LJKAE26 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 1981.