Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 29 December 1979 at 12:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A10 in Hackney at 12:40 on Saturday 29 December 1979. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1979; Saturday, 12:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LTMIC48
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: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 35, 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 197901LTMIC48 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.