B279 crash in Merton on 22 December 1981 at 10:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B279 in Merton at 10:00 on Tuesday 22 December 1981. A 65-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 22 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 10:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LMKAK20
Council area: Merton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 279
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: Daylight
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 65, 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 198101LMKAK20 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 1981.