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A179 crash in Hartlepool on 23 December 1989 at 23:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A179 in Hartlepool at 23:55 on Saturday 23 December 1989. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1989
Saturday, 23:55
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.68705, longitude -1.2115, in the TS24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hartlepool.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198917K102428
Council area
Hartlepool
Police force
Cleveland

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
179
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver age
    0 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 38, 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 198917K102428 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 1989.