Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME11 on 30 January 1980 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Swale at 19:30 on Wednesday 30 January 1980. A 6-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
- 30 Jan 1980
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40769, longitude 0.74344, in the ME11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Queenborough.
Map of where the crash happened in Swale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980466400810
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 10 November 1985
At the same spotRef 1985462410225
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 7 February 2009
22 m awayRef 2009460168451
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 16 May 1996
42 m awayRef 199646SW02681
Slight
Chevrolet Aveo crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 13 December 2013
50 m awayRef 2013460235646
Serious
Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 29 December 2002
51 m awayRef 200246SW69154
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 28 August 2013
54 m awayRef 2013460231953
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 6, 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 1980466400810 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 1980.