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Serious A225 crash in Dartford on 27 November 1980 at 06:25 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A225 in Dartford at 06:25 on Thursday 27 November 1980. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Nov 1980
Thursday, 06:25
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43774, longitude 0.2157, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartford.

Map of where the crash happened in Dartford

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980463209340
Council area
Dartford
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
225
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
225

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
    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 1980463209340 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dartford road accident statistics for 1980.