A159 crash in West Lindsey on 6 June 1979 at 14:35 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A159 in West Lindsey at 14:35 on Wednesday 6 June 1979. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 1979
- Wednesday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.40523, longitude -0.7772, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gainsborough.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197932D083479
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 159
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 2009.
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 13 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200932D045709
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 30 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200432D200504
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 19 May 2025
11 m awayRef 2025320289673
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 1 February 2005
14 m awayRef 200532D012805
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 13 September 2004
14 m awayRef 200432D131804
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A156 in West Lindsey, 8 March 2006
14 m awayRef 200632D012406
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
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 4, 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 197932D083479 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1979.