A212 crash in Croydon on 22 December 1981 at 23:50 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A212 in Croydon at 23:50 on Tuesday 22 December 1981. A female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 22 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 23:50
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LMXKE08
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 212
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

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

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 198101LMXKE08 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Croydon road accident statistics for 1981.