C road crash in Solihull on 25 December 1979 at 00:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Solihull at 00:40 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 00:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197920LPAIO60
Council area: Solihull
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

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

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 23, 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 197920LPAIO60 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 1979.