A5 crash in Barnet on 24 December 1981 at 20:10 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5 in Barnet at 20:10 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 20:10
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOUCF02
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Female

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 30, 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 198101LOUCF02 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1981.