A469 crash in Cardiff on 3 December 1979 at 21:17 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A469 in Cardiff at 21:17 on Monday 3 December 1979. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1979
- Monday, 21:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51637, longitude -3.20043, in the CF14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620D06320
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 469
- 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, street lights lit
- 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 6 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 6 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982620D05850
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 14 November 2021
19 m awayRef 2021622100890
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 18 December 2017
35 m awayRef 2017621800663
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on the B4623 in Cardiff, 21 April 2009
50 m awayRef 2009620189119
Slight
Car crash on the A469 in Cardiff, 13 December 2008
61 m awayRef 2008620185325
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 22 February 2003
70 m awayRef 2003620078739
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1979620D06320 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 1979.