Serious unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 26 April 1979 at 18:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 18:45 on Thursday 26 April 1979. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Apr 1979
- Thursday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42992, longitude 0.38509, in the DA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gravesend.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979463102849
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 serious injury crash on 17 May 1985.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 17 May 1985
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Slight
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Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 17 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985463107505
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 28 June 1994
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Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 13 November 2020
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham, 8 February 1994
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1979463102849 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 1979.