A12 crash in Havering on 22 December 1981 at 04:30 involving a lorry

A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 04:30 on Tuesday 22 December 1981. The 46-year-old male driver of the lorry was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 22 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 04:30
Vehicles: 2; Lorry and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LMEGD54
Council area: Havering
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 12
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 46, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)

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 198101LMEGD54 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.