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Serious unclassified road crash on the Isle of Wight PO33 on 30 October 1981 at 22:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight at 22:30 on Friday 30 October 1981. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Oct 1981
Friday, 22:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72463, longitude -1.16409, in the PO33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ryde.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981440LR0122
Council area
Isle of Wight
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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 with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 12 November 1979.

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
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 13, 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 1981440LR0122 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 1981.