Serious unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF35 on 9 March 1980 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
Two motorcycles were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 16:15 on Sunday 9 March 1980. The 17-year-old male rider of vehicle 1 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Mar 1980
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56576, longitude -3.48899, in the CF35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980620F01070
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 396 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 1992.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A473 in Bridgend, 4 December 1979
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 July 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the A4093 in Rhondda Cynon Taf, 13 July 1988
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1980620F01070 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1980.