Serious unclassified road crash in Lewisham on 24 December 1981 at 18:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 18:15 on Thursday 24 December 1981. A 27-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LOSDU76
- Council area
- Lewisham
- 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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198101LOSDU76 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1981.