Serious A33 crash in Southampton on 3 November 1981 at 10:18 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A33 in Southampton at 10:18 on Tuesday 3 November 1981. The 16-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Nov 1981
- Tuesday, 10:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90683, longitude -1.39977, in the SO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981440FC0460
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 33
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 33
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 6 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A33 in Southampton, 6 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982440FC0583
Slight
Car crash on the A3024 in Southampton, 26 March 1981
At the same spotRef 1981440FC0145
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 9 January 1980
At the same spotRef 1980440FC0010
Serious
Car crash on the A35 in Southampton, 23 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981440FC0569
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 20 August 2010
20 m awayRef 2010440353335
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 4 September 2011
30 m awayRef 2011440376196
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 1981440FC0460 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 1981.