C road crash in Test Valley SP11 on 27 December 1980 at 00:05 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Test Valley at 00:05 on Saturday 27 December 1980. The 63-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1980
- Saturday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24436, longitude -1.46702, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980440BA0340
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 141 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 August 1981.
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 16 August 1981
141 m awayRef 1981440BW0146
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 19 July 2011
532 m awayRef 2011440301923
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 9 April 1979
539 m awayRef 1979440BA0077
Serious
Car crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 10 March 1986
626 m awayRef 1986440NA0061
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 30 April 2000
628 m awayRef 2000440NA0285
Slight
Lexus GS300 crash on the A343 in Test Valley, 6 October 2009
636 m awayRef 2009440436162
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 63, 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 1980440BA0340 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 1980.