Unclassified road crash in Newham on 21 December 1981 at 10:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newham at 10:00 on Monday 21 December 1981. The 45-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1981; Monday, 10:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LLKAV78
Council area: Newham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to go ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 45, 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 198101LLKAV78 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1981.