A20 crash in Greenwich on 23 December 1981 at 21:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A20 in Greenwich at 21:10 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 22-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 21:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNVCC67
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 20
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 22, 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 198101LNVCC67 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.