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Serious A4158 crash in South Oxfordshire on 3 May 1979 at 19:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A4158 in South Oxfordshire at 19:00 on Thursday 3 May 1979. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
3 May 1979
Thursday, 19:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72047, longitude -1.22519, in the OX4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford.

Map of where the crash happened in South Oxfordshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197943H008059
Council area
South Oxfordshire
Police force
Thames Valley

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
4158
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 9, 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 197943H008059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Oxfordshire road accident statistics for 1979.