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Unclassified road crash in Moray AB55 on 18 February 1979 at 00:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Moray at 00:10 on Sunday 18 February 1979. A 55-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Feb 1979
Sunday, 00:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.53926, longitude -2.94875, in the AB55 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keith.

Map of where the crash happened in Moray

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979927901166
Council area
Moray
Police force
Grampian

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    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 1979927901166 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Moray road accident statistics for 1979.