Unclassified road crash in Fenland PE15 on 23 August 1979 at 16:06 involving a van
A van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fenland at 16:06 on Thursday 23 August 1979. The 7-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1979
- Thursday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54802, longitude 0.08242, in the PE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of March.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979354051679
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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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The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1992.
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 20 June 1988
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 11 February 2005
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 7, 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 1979354051679 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 1979.