C road crash in Newham on 24 December 1981 at 22:20 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Newham at 22:20 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 35-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 22:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LOWEP73
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 198101LOWEP73 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1981.