Serious A310 crash in Hounslow on 31 December 1981 at 16:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A310 in Hounslow at 16:15 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 91-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 16:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVQDE51
Council area: Hounslow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 310
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

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
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 91, 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 198101LVQDE51 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 1981.