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Serious A133 crash in Tendring on 19 December 1980 at 17:45 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A133 in Tendring at 17:45 on Friday 19 December 1980. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Dec 1980
Friday, 17:45
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86895, longitude 1.07507, in the CO7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Tendring

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420040482
Council area
Tendring
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
133
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1984.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (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 1980420040482 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1980.