A10 crash in Haringey on 24 December 1981 at 15:45 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A10 in Haringey at 15:45 on Thursday 24 December 1981. A 19-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 15:45
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOPJF16
Council area: Haringey
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 10
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to go ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 19, 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 198101LOPJF16 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1981.