Fatal A21 crash in Lewisham on 28 December 1981 at 17:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A21 in Lewisham at 17:30 on Monday 28 December 1981. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 17:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 killed

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSRGC71
Council area: Lewisham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 21
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: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Fatal
Female, aged 85, 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 198101LSRGC71 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1981.