Serious B4265 crash in the Vale of Glamorgan on 7 August 1979 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan at 07:50 on Tuesday 7 August 1979. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Aug 1979
- Tuesday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40401, longitude -3.36138, in the CF62 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rhoose.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of Glamorgan
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620E02150
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2009.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 11 March 2009
100 m awayRef 2009620189812
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 13 September 2021
104 m awayRef 2021622100716
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4226 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 20 December 1989
120 m awayRef 1989620E15750
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 13 December 1993
141 m awayRef 199362E036893
Slight
Car crash on the B4265 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 8 February 1985
142 m awayRef 1985620E01410
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan, 17 December 1995
200 m awayRef 199562E036395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 1979620E02150 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 1979.