C road crash in Sheffield S3 on 26 March 1980 at 17:15 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on a C road in Sheffield at 17:15 on Wednesday 26 March 1980. A 76-year-old male pedestrian and a 71-year-old female pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 1980
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38325, longitude -1.48806, in the S3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheffield.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198014F100426
- Council area
- Sheffield
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 2004.
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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
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 71, 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 198014F100426 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sheffield road accident statistics for 1980.