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Serious A158 crash in Lincoln on 21 March 1979 at 00:25 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A158 in Lincoln at 00:25 on Wednesday 21 March 1979. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Mar 1979
Wednesday, 00:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22912, longitude -0.53654, in the LN2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197932D042079
Council area
Lincoln
Police force
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
158
Road type
Dual 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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 197932D042079 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 1979.