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Serious A604 crash in Braintree on 29 December 1980 at 15:43 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A604 in Braintree at 15:43 on Monday 29 December 1980. The 77-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Dec 1980
Monday, 15:43
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.97769, longitude 0.59319, in the CO9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sible Hedingham.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420051105
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
604
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 1991.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    77 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 77, 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 1980420051105 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1980.