A1209 crash in Tower Hamlets on 24 December 1979 at 14:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets at 14:30 on Monday 24 December 1979. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1979; Monday, 14:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LOOGC55
Council area: Tower Hamlets
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1209
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Zebra crossing

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 197901LOOGC55 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 1979.