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A27 crash in Wealden on 27 September 1979 at 23:00 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A27 in Wealden at 23:00 on Thursday 27 September 1979. The 13-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Sep 1979
Thursday, 23:00
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.81695, longitude 0.32546, in the BN24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Westham.

Map of where the crash happened in Wealden

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197947SA90477
Council area
Wealden
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
27
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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1990.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    13 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 13, 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 197947SA90477 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wealden road accident statistics for 1979.