Serious A406 crash in Ealing on 29 December 1981 at 18:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A406 in Ealing at 18:10 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 18:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LTSCE78
Council area: Ealing
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 406
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
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: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LTSCE78 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1981.