A210 crash in Greenwich on 31 December 1981 at 18:00 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A210 in Greenwich at 18:00 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 65-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 18:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVSAC62
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 210
Road type: Single 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: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198101LVSAC62 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1981.