C road crash in Basingstoke and Deane RG26 on 18 May 1979 at 15:10 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Basingstoke and Deane at 15:10 on Friday 18 May 1979. The 35-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1979
- Friday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35753, longitude -1.14257, in the RG26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Basingstoke and Deane
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440BL0072
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1982.
Slight
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Slight
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 10 December 1990
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Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 24 October 2000
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Basingstoke and Deane, 11 December 1991
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1979440BL0072 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.