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Unclassified road crash in Epping Forest CM16 on 22 December 1979 at 15:45 involving a car

A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Epping Forest at 15:45 on Saturday 22 December 1979. A 7-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Dec 1979
Saturday, 15:45
Vehicles
2
Car and van
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69594, longitude 0.11253, in the CM16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Epping.

Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979420070947
Council area
Epping Forest
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1993.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

  • Vehicle 2: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1979420070947 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1979.