C road crash in Merton on 27 December 1979 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Merton at 17:00 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRRAQ26
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, on vehicle 2 (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 197901LRRAQ26 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 1979.