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Serious A1025 crash in Harlow on 19 March 1981 at 08:35 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A1025 in Harlow at 08:35 on Thursday 19 March 1981. The 12-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Mar 1981
Thursday, 08:35
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.76587, longitude 0.12449, in the CM20 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Harlow

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981420070168
Council area
Harlow
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1025
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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 with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 74 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2017.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    12 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    62 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 12, 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 1981420070168 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harlow road accident statistics for 1981.