Unclassified road crash in Peterborough on 28 December 1979 at 18:00 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Peterborough at 18:00 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 53-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 18:00
Vehicles: 2; Car and bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1979355136279
Council area: Peterborough
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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Travelling from
Parked
Travelling to
Parked
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
35 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
Hit object in carriageway
Open door of vehicle
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
53 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Cyclist
Slight
Female, aged 53, 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 1979355136279 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Peterborough road accident statistics for 1979.