A404 crash in Brent on 31 December 1981 at 21:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A404 in Brent at 21:30 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 62-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 21:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVVGE83
Council area: Brent
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 404
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at 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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 62, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility

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 198101LVVGE83 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 1981.