C road crash in East Lindsey DN36 on 11 April 1979 at 15:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in East Lindsey at 15:15 on Wednesday 11 April 1979. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 1979
- Wednesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50527, longitude -0.06246, in the DN36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Holton le Clay.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197932C024779
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 57 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 2010.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in East Lindsey, 7 May 2003
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Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in East Lindsey, 4 April 1995
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in East Lindsey, 15 February 2004
81 m awayRef 200432C021104
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in East Lindsey, 19 June 2021
90 m awayRef 2021320340265
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in East Lindsey, 9 April 1995
100 m awayRef 199532C002195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 197932C024779 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 1979.