Serious C road crash in Southwark on 23 December 1981 at 10:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Southwark at 10:35 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 10:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LNKHO88
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
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 198101LNKHO88 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1981.