B4461 crash in South Gloucestershire on 3 May 1980 at 14:35 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire at 14:35 on Saturday 3 May 1980. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1980
- Saturday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59198, longitude -2.53348, in the BS35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alveston.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198052DFT0710
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2018.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 29 March 2018
14 m awayRef 2018521803492
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 29 February 1992
20 m awayRef 19925292E9070
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 20 July 1994
20 m awayRef 19945294E2722
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 20 April 1998
22 m awayRef 1998520041416
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4461 in South Gloucestershire, 13 October 2007
22 m awayRef 2007520713154
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 13 August 2025
30 m awayRef 2025522502141
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 3 (Motorcycle)
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 198052DFT0710 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.