A11 crash in Newham on 24 December 1981 at 23:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A11 in Newham at 23:15 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 27-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with unlit street lights on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 23:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOXDD73
Council area: Newham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 11
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights unlit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 27, 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 198101LOXDD73 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.