A10 crash in Enfield on 31 December 1981 at 16:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A10 in Enfield at 16:00 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 16:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVQAF24
Council area: Enfield
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 10
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
On footway or verge

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 198101LVQAF24 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Enfield road accident statistics for 1981.