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Serious A420 crash in Wiltshire on 5 September 1980 at 16:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A420 in Wiltshire at 16:10 on Friday 5 September 1980. A 70-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Sep 1980
Friday, 16:10
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54109, longitude -1.9058, in the SN4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Wootton Bassett.

Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198054DW02440
Council area
Wiltshire
Police force
Wiltshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
420
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2013.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 70, 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 198054DW02440 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 1980.