A244 crash in Hounslow on 29 December 1979 at 12:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A244 in Hounslow at 12:00 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1979; Saturday, 12:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LTMAE59
Council area: Hounslow
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 244
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Moving off
Driver sex
Female

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 197901LTMAE59 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 1979.