Serious A41 crash in Westminster on 28 December 1981 at 20:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A41 in Westminster at 20:15 on Monday 28 December 1981. A 40-year-old female 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 T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 20:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSUDC14
Council area: Westminster
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 41
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 40, 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 198101LSUDC14 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 1981.