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C road crash in Basingstoke and Deane RG26 on 12 January 1979 at 22:15 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Basingstoke and Deane at 22:15 on Friday 12 January 1979. A 58-year-old male pedestrian hit by the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Jan 1979
Friday, 22:15
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29788, longitude -1.2283, in the RG26 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979440BL0010
Council area
Basingstoke and Deane
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2007.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

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

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle 50cc and under

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 58, hit by vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Walking along in carriageway, facing 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 1979440BL0010 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.