A3 crash in Lambeth on 27 December 1981 at 18:20 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Lambeth at 18:20 on Sunday 27 December 1981. A 17-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 18:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRSEC95
Council area: Lambeth
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 3
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LRSEC95 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1981.