C road crash in Peterborough on 21 December 1979 at 15:10 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Peterborough at 15:10 on Friday 21 December 1979. A 45-year-old female pedestrian hit by vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1979; Friday, 15:10
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979355137479
Council area: Peterborough
Police force: Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class: C
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: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
West
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 45, hit by vehicle 2 (Car)
Pedestrian location
On footway or verge
Pedestrian movement
Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 1979355137479 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Peterborough road accident statistics for 1979.