Serious A40 crash in Ealing on 27 December 1981 at 19:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Ealing at 19:15 on Sunday 27 December 1981. A 25-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 19:15
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRTDE70
Council area: Ealing
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 40
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 70 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
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: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 198101LRTDE70 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1981.