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Serious unclassified road crash in Test Valley SO51 on 23 January 1980 at 08:50 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 08:50 on Wednesday 23 January 1980. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Jan 1980
Wednesday, 08:50
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.99439, longitude -1.46846, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980440DC0018
Council area
Test Valley
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 July 2016.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 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 1980440DC0018 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.