A206 crash in Greenwich on 22 December 1981 at 11:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A206 in Greenwich at 11:30 on Tuesday 22 December 1981. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 22 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 11:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LMLGC69
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 206
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
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
Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 198101LMLGC69 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1981.