Unclassified road crash in Braintree CM77 on 22 October 1979 at 09:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Braintree at 09:30 on Monday 22 October 1979. An 83-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1979
- Monday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86476, longitude 0.5344, in the CM77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Notley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979420050841
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 83, 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 1979420050841 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1979.