Serious A598 crash in Barnet on 28 December 1981 at 00:10 involving a lorry

A lorry and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A598 in Barnet at 00:10 on Monday 28 December 1981. A 40-year-old male pedestrian hit by the lorry was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 00:10
Vehicles: 2; Lorry and bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSACF08
Council area: Barnet
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 598
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
Manoeuvre
Parked

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 198101LSACF08 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1981.