Unclassified road crash in Hartlepool on 29 December 1986 at 20:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hartlepool at 20:40 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 24-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 20:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198617J100752
Council area: Hartlepool
Police force: Cleveland

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other 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: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Reversing
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
30 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 24, 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 198617J100752 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hartlepool road accident statistics for 1986.