A212 crash in Croydon on 29 December 1981 at 07:30 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A212 in Croydon at 07:30 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. The 41-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 07:30
Vehicles: 2; Car and bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LTHGE04
Council area: Croydon
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 212
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: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 41, 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 198101LTHGE04 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Croydon road accident statistics for 1981.