Serious unclassified road crash in North Lanarkshire on 29 December 1979 at 16:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in North Lanarkshire at 16:30 on Saturday 29 December 1979. An 8-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1979; Saturday, 16:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197997PC06712
Council area: North Lanarkshire
Police force: Strathclyde

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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fog or mist
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 8, 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 197997PC06712 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.