Unclassified road crash in Maldon CM9 on 13 December 1980 at 11:30 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Maldon at 11:30 on Saturday 13 December 1980. A 71-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1980
- Saturday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77928, longitude 0.73693, in the CM9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Maldon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980420031059
- Council area
- Maldon
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2013.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 1980420031059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 1980.