Serious unclassified road crash in Havering on 21 December 1981 at 17:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Havering at 17:40 on Monday 21 December 1981. A 3-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 21 Dec 1981; Monday, 17:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LLRIV53
Council area: Havering
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LLRIV53 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.