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Fatal unclassified road crash in Tendring CO14 on 13 April 1979 at 19:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tendring at 19:15 on Friday 13 April 1979. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was killed and the 17-year-old male driver was slightly 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
Fatal
Date
13 Apr 1979
Friday, 19:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 killed, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85718, longitude 1.27762, in the CO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walton-on-the-Naze.

Map of where the crash happened in Tendring

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979420040140
Council area
Tendring
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 serious injury crash on 16 September 1982.

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
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

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

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, 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 1979420040140 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1979.