Serious A50 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 14 October 1979 at 13:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent at 13:50 on Sunday 14 October 1979. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Oct 1979
- Sunday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06622, longitude -2.21575, in the ST6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979219300477
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 April 2004.
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 10 April 2004
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Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 15 March 1989
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Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 March 1982
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Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 30 January 2004
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10 m awayRef 2009219007088
Slight
Car crash on the A50 in Stoke-on-Trent, 12 May 1986
10 m awayRef 1986216300278
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1979219300477 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 1979.