Serious B7002 crash in North Lanarkshire on 23 December 1979 at 22:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B7002 in North Lanarkshire at 22:45 on Sunday 23 December 1979. A 58-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 23 Dec 1979; Sunday, 22:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197997PC04812
Council area: North Lanarkshire
Police force: Strathclyde

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 7002
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 58, 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 197997PC04812 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 1979.