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Serious A1 crash in Barnet on 20 May 1988 at 15:12 involving a car

A car crashed on the A1 in Barnet at 15:12 on Friday 20 May 1988. The 32-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 4-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
20 May 1988
Friday, 15:12
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.66283, longitude -0.24718, in the EN5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnet

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198801SA00367
Council area
Barnet
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
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 13 January 1985.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    32 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 198801SA00367 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1988.