Serious A57 crash in Warrington on 24 December 1979 at 13:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A57 in Warrington at 13:55 on Monday 24 December 1979. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 24 Dec 1979; Monday, 13:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197907LONLE80
Council area: Warrington
Police force: Cheshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 57
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 68, 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 197907LONLE80 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1979.