B4469 crash in Bristol on 19 September 1979 at 00:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4469 in Bristol at 00:45 on Wednesday 19 September 1979. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 1979
- Wednesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47565, longitude -2.5661, in the BS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197952DLO0884
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4469
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B4469 in Bristol, 27 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198552CL01867
Slight
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on the B4469 in Bristol, 22 December 2003
10 m awayRef 2003520171115
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4469 in Bristol, 14 March 2011
14 m awayRef 2011521101448
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4469 in Bristol, 4 December 2020
18 m awayRef 2020522101301
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 27 July 2022
18 m awayRef 2022522203359
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B4469 in Bristol, 21 December 2025
19 m awayRef 2025522600813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 197952DLO0884 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1979.