A24 crash in Sutton on 21 December 1981 at 06:10 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A24 in Sutton at 06:10 on Monday 21 December 1981. The 46-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1981; Monday, 06:10
Vehicles: 2; Car and lorry
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LLGCE13
Council area: Sutton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 24
Speed limit: 30 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
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 46, 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 198101LLGCE13 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.