Serious A400 crash in Camden on 28 December 1981 at 18:45 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A400 in Camden at 18:45 on Monday 28 December 1981. A 62-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 18:45
Vehicles: 1; Taxi
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSSJC24
Council area: Camden
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 400
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Taxi
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
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 198101LSSJC24 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.