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A5 crash in Brent on 31 December 1983 at 19:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A5 in Brent at 19:30 on Saturday 31 December 1983. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
31 Dec 1983
Saturday, 19:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54479, longitude -0.20139, in the NW6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brent.

Map of where the crash happened in Brent

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010EH0576
Council area
Brent
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1983010EH0576 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 1983.