A4010 crash in Buckinghamshire on 20 July 1979 at 15:15 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A4010 in Buckinghamshire at 15:15 on Friday 20 July 1979. A 44-year-old female pedestrian 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
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 1979
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72469, longitude -0.83247, in the HP27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Princes Risborough. The location was in the former Wycombe district.
Map of where the crash happened in Buckinghamshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943A036079
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4010
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 September 2016.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 3 September 2016
12 m awayRef 2016430255671
Slight
Car crash on the A4010 in Buckinghamshire, 23 April 1979
14 m awayRef 197943A049049
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 9 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199943N231099
Slight
Van crash on the A4010 in Buckinghamshire, 13 February 1982
28 m awayRef 198243A016022
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 29 September 1990
30 m awayRef 199043A154090
Slight
Bus crash on the A4010 in Buckinghamshire, 12 March 1983
32 m awayRef 198343A059033
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 197943A036079 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Buckinghamshire road accident statistics for 1979.