A222 crash in Croydon on 25 December 1981 at 12:25 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A222 in Croydon at 12:25 on Friday 25 December 1981. The 21-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1981; Friday, 12:25
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LPMFE02
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 222
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Female, 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 198101LPMFE02 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Croydon road accident statistics for 1981.