Serious unclassified road crash in Hillingdon on 23 December 1981 at 21:05 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Hillingdon at 21:05 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. An 18-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger were 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LNVBW60
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198101LNVBW60 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1981.