A1010 crash in Enfield on 28 December 1981 at 22:45 involving a bus or coach

A bus or coach crashed on the A1010 in Enfield at 22:45 on Monday 28 December 1981. A 40-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1981; Monday, 22:45
Vehicles: 1; Bus or coach
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LSWJF27
Council area: Enfield
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1010
Road type: Single carriageway
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: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
Manoeuvre
Moving off
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 40, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
Bus or coach passenger
Boarding

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 198101LSWJF27 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1981.