Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 27 December 1979 at 13:20 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A10 in Hackney at 13:20 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 71-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 13:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRNEC48
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 10
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: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing in zig-zag approach lines

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 197901LRNEC48 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1979.