Serious A6010 crash in Manchester on 25 March 1979 at 03:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the A6010 in Manchester at 03:20 on Sunday 25 March 1979. A 28-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 1979
- Sunday, 03:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44527, longitude -2.21827, in the M14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197906D000398
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6010
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 March 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 7 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197906D000349
Slight
Car crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 16 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198806D040888
Slight
Car crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 20 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198406D081084
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 26 January 1990
At the same spotRef 199006C018790
Serious
Car crash on the A34 in Manchester, 26 October 1982
At the same spotRef 198206D156182
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 19 April 1998
22 m awayRef 199806C347598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197906D000398 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 1979.