A3 crash in Southwark on 29 December 1981 at 12:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Southwark at 12:00 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. A 1-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 12:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LTMAC84
Council area: Southwark
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 3
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 1, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198101LTMAC84 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1981.