Serious unclassified road crash in Basildon SS16 on 30 April 1979 at 18:25 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Basildon at 18:25 on Monday 30 April 1979. A 20-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 1979
- Monday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5665, longitude 0.47737, in the SS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basildon.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979420020294
- Council area
- Basildon
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1990.
Slight
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Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 16 January 2003
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 3 March 2002
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Zastava Yugo crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 23 July 1990
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Basildon, 27 September 1979
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 20, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 1979420020294 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basildon road accident statistics for 1979.