Serious B4056 crash in South Gloucestershire on 12 July 1980 at 11:55 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire at 11:55 on Saturday 12 July 1980. The 12-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
- 12 Jul 1980
- Saturday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50351, longitude -2.58748, in the BS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198052DFI1106
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4056
- 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 June 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 18 June 1982
At the same spotRef 198252DFI0955
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B4056 in Bristol, 21 June 1997
At the same spotRef 1997520053861
Serious
Car crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 6 September 1980
At the same spotRef 198052DFI1434
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 30 September 2017
8 m awayRef 2017521708463
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4056 in South Gloucestershire, 20 March 2025
9 m awayRef 2025522501259
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4056 in Bristol, 24 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198452CSM0774
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 12, 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 198052DFI1106 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 1980.