Serious B3080 crash in the New Forest on 7 October 1979 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B3080 in the New Forest at 13:00 on Sunday 7 October 1979. The 11-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Oct 1979
- Sunday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95382, longitude -1.68817, in the SP5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979440DF0094
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3080
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 78 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2009.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the B3080 in the New Forest, 13 December 2009
78 m awayRef 2009440535955
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B3080 in the New Forest, 17 December 2013
139 m awayRef 2013440472273
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B3080 in the New Forest, 22 January 2015
279 m awayRef 2015440023745
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 16 October 1997
290 m awayRef 1997440DF0077
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 8 August 1998
361 m awayRef 1998440DF0055
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the B3078 in the New Forest, 4 October 1997
361 m awayRef 1997440DL0238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 11, 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 1979440DF0094 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the New Forest road accident statistics for 1979.