A127 crash in Havering on 21 December 1981 at 02:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A127 in Havering at 02:30 on Monday 21 December 1981. The 18-year-old male driver of the car, a 17-year-old female passenger in the car and a 20-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1981
- Monday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LLCGD57
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 127
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198101LLCGD57 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1981.