Serious A515 crash in High Peak on 8 December 1986 at 16:52 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A515 in High Peak at 16:52 on Monday 8 December 1986. An 84-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 8 Dec 1986; Monday, 16:52
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986306B00593
Council area: High Peak
Police force: Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 515
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
On footway or verge
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 1986306B00593 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the High Peak road accident statistics for 1986.