Serious A904 crash in Falkirk on 22 December 1979 at 13:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A904 in Falkirk at 13:50 on Saturday 22 December 1979. A 13-year-old female 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: 22 Dec 1979; Saturday, 13:50
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197996PF03327
Council area: Falkirk
Police force: Central

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 904
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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
54 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 197996PF03327 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Falkirk road accident statistics for 1979.