A20 crash in Greenwich on 27 December 1981 at 19:15 involving a car

A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the A20 in Greenwich at 19:15 on Sunday 27 December 1981. The 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 19:15
Vehicles: 2; Other vehicle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRTDC67
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 20
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 24, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

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 198101LRTDC67 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1981.