A518 crash in Telford and Wrekin on 21 November 1979 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A518 in Telford and Wrekin at 16:30 on Wednesday 21 November 1979. The 32-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1979
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.70995, longitude -2.4705, in the TF1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Telford and Wrekin
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979220711048
- Council area
- Telford and Wrekin
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 518
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 518
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 1995.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 1979220711048 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Telford and Wrekin road accident statistics for 1979.