A406 crash in Brent on 24 December 1981 at 23:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A406 in Brent at 23:30 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 23:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOXGE80
Council area: Brent
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 406
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 21, 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 198101LOXGE80 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 1981.