C road crash in Bridgend CF35 on 8 August 1979 at 13:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Bridgend at 13:55 on Wednesday 8 August 1979. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 1979
- Wednesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53295, longitude -3.55742, in the CF35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgend.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979620F02640
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 2009.
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Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 8 December 2009
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 November 1991
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Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 29 January 1998
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Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 24 November 1999
32 m awayRef 1999620009697
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 16 November 2017
72 m awayRef 2017621701546
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1979620F02640 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1979.