Unclassified road crash in Newham on 29 December 1981 at 22:40 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newham at 22:40 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. The 25-year-old male driver of the van, a 6-year-old female passenger in the car and a 14-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LTWIV71
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198101LTWIV71 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1981.