C road crash in Oxford OX1 on 14 September 1979 at 16:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Oxford at 16:30 on Friday 14 September 1979. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 1979
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75037, longitude -1.26046, in the OX1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197943H042099
- Council area
- Oxford
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 12, on vehicle 1 (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 197943H042099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Oxford road accident statistics for 1979.