Serious A10 crash in Broxbourne on 20 December 1981 at 15:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A10 in Broxbourne at 15:10 on Sunday 20 December 1981. A 75-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was seriously injured and an 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and the 72-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 1981
- Sunday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LKPCF54
- Council area
- Broxbourne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 10
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198101LKPCF54 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxbourne road accident statistics for 1981.