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Serious A420 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 12 September 1984 at 15:58 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A420 in the Vale of White Horse at 15:58 on Wednesday 12 September 1984. An 88-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
12 Sep 1984
Wednesday, 15:58
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.68087, longitude -1.42185, in the OX13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston Bagpuize.

Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198443F024094
Council area
Vale of White Horse
Police force
Thames Valley

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
420
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 88, 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 198443F024094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 1984.