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A672 crash in Oldham on 29 May 1979 at 01:40 involving a taxi

A taxi and a van were involved in a crash on the A672 in Oldham at 01:40 on Tuesday 29 May 1979. The 41-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 May 1979
Tuesday, 01:40
Vehicles
2
Taxi and van
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.5506, longitude -2.0875, in the OL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldham.

Map of where the crash happened in Oldham

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197906Q001028
Council area
Oldham
Police force
Greater Manchester

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
672
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, 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 25 January 1986.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

  • Vehicle 2: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 41, taxi occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)

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 197906Q001028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oldham road accident statistics for 1979.