Serious C road crash in Basingstoke and Deane RG24 on 15 January 1979 at 12:39
A vehicle hit a pedestrian on a C road in Basingstoke and Deane at 12:39 on Monday 15 January 1979. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 1979
- Monday, 12:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28426, longitude -1.08514, in the RG24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Basingstoke.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440BB0015
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 July 2019.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 23 July 2019
6 m awayRef 2019440258554
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 6 September 2009
14 m awayRef 2009440389680
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 10 February 2005
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Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 5 February 2008
20 m awayRef 2008440052409
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 8 October 1985
20 m awayRef 1985440BB0461
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 24 July 2001
20 m awayRef 2001440BB0880
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
- 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 1979440BB0015 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 1979.