A215 crash in Lambeth on 23 December 1981 at 07:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A215 in Lambeth at 07:00 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 60-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 07:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNHAC96
Council area: Lambeth
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 215
Road type: Single carriageway
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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 60, 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 198101LNHAC96 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1981.