Unclassified road crash in Stoke-on-Trent ST6 on 21 February 1979 at 14:08 involving a taxi
A taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent at 14:08 on Wednesday 21 February 1979. The 10-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1979
- Wednesday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.04298, longitude -2.19102, in the ST6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979219300059
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 10, 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 1979219300059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 1979.