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Serious A158 crash in Lincoln on 12 April 1979 at 20:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A158 in Lincoln at 20:55 on Thursday 12 April 1979. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Apr 1979
Thursday, 20:55
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.2229, longitude -0.5351, in the LN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln.

Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197932D053979
Council area
Lincoln
Police force
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
158
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1997.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

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

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 197932D053979 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.