C road crash in Croydon on 29 December 1981 at 13:20 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Croydon at 13:20 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. The 60-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LTNEQ01
- Council area
- Croydon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 59 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, 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 198101LTNEQ01 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.