Unclassified road crash in Croydon on 30 December 1981 at 11:45 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Croydon at 11:45 on Wednesday 30 December 1981. A 59-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LULJW01
- Council area
- Croydon
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 198101LULJW01 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.