Serious A104 crash in Epping Forest on 28 December 1981 at 20:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A104 in Epping Forest at 20:20 on Monday 28 December 1981. The 40-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1981
- Monday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LSUEF63
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198101LSUEF63 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1981.