Serious A105 crash in Hackney on 31 December 1981 at 17:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A105 in Hackney at 17:00 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A male pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 17:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVRAC41
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 105
Road type: Dual carriageway
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
Female
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, 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 198101LVRAC41 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1981.