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A414 crash in Harlow on 12 December 1979 at 13:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A414 in Harlow at 13:15 on Wednesday 12 December 1979. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Dec 1979
Wednesday, 13:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78037, longitude 0.11792, in the CM20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Harlow.

Map of where the crash happened in Harlow

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979420070908
Council area
Harlow
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
414
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    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 1979420070908 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 1979.