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B9047 crash in the Orkney Islands on 2 January 1982 at 01:50 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B9047 in the Orkney Islands at 01:50 on Saturday 2 January 1982. A 28-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
2 Jan 1982
Saturday, 01:50
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 58.79818, longitude -3.20786, in the KW16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in the Orkney Islands

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982910010002
Council area
Orkney Islands
Police force
Northern

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
9047
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
9047

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 June 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 28, 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 1982910010002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Orkney Islands road accident statistics for 1982.