Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS7 on 24 November 1979 at 09:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bristol at 09:00 on Saturday 24 November 1979. The 55-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1979
- Saturday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48522, longitude -2.57616, in the BS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197952DLO1195
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Frost or ice
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1989.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 197952DLO1195 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.