Unclassified road crash in Buckinghamshire HP9 on 19 October 1979 at 17:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire at 17:30 on Friday 19 October 1979. The 17-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1979
- Friday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60127, longitude -0.60505, in the HP9 postcode district. The location was in the former Chiltern district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943B053109
- Council area
- Buckinghamshire
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 3 January 1986
14 m awayRef 198643A013016
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 15 February 2007
92 m awayRef 200743N084027
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 21 July 1988
150 m awayRef 198843A114078
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 1 August 1992
156 m awayRef 199243N003082
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 25 June 2018
287 m awayRef 2018430198070
Fatal
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Buckinghamshire, 26 November 1992
312 m awayRef 199243N167112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 197943B053109 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Buckinghamshire road accident statistics for 1979.