Serious B5200 crash in Islington on 27 December 1981 at 00:55

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on the B5200 in Islington at 00:55 on Sunday 27 December 1981. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 00:55
Vehicles: 1; Other vehicle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRALI37
Council area: Islington
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 5200
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Pedestrian location
Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility

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 198101LRALI37 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Islington road accident statistics for 1981.