Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 16 September 1980 at 19:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 19:30 on Tuesday 16 September 1980. The 21-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1980
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41244, longitude -1.49863, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000M2185
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 17 August 1984.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 August 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000M2231
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 28 November 1980
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Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 31 March 2001
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 19802000M2185 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Coventry road accident statistics for 1980.