C road crash in Enfield on 24 December 1981 at 16:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Enfield at 16:30 on Thursday 24 December 1981. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 16:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOQGR25
Council area: Enfield
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

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 14, 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 198101LOQGR25 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1981.