A501 crash in Camden on 28 December 1981 at 16:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A501 in Camden at 16:40 on Monday 28 December 1981. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 16:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSQIC29
Council area: Camden
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 501
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

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

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198101LSQIC29 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 1981.