A205 crash in Greenwich on 24 December 1981 at 18:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A205 in Greenwich at 18:50 on Thursday 24 December 1981. A 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and the 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LOSKC60
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198101LOSKC60 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.