C road crash in Elmbridge on 22 December 1979 at 23:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Elmbridge at 23:30 on Saturday 22 December 1979. The 32-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LMXGR95
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 32, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 197901LMXGR95 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Elmbridge road accident statistics for 1979.