Serious A82 crash in Highland on 26 December 1979 at 17:45 involving a lorry

A lorry hit a pedestrian on the A82 in Highland at 17:45 on Wednesday 26 December 1979. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 26 Dec 1979; Wednesday, 17:45
Vehicles: 1; Lorry
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979910091128
Council area: Highland
Police force: Northern

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 82
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Dark, no street lighting
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
43 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, not crossing
Pedestrian movement
Walking along in carriageway, back to 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 1979910091128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Highland road accident statistics for 1979.