C road crash in Barnet on 31 December 1979 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Barnet at 17:00 on Monday 31 December 1979. The 38-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1979
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LVRAR02
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 197901LVRAR02 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1979.