A157 crash in East Lindsey on 1 August 1982 at 12:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A157 in East Lindsey at 12:10 on Sunday 1 August 1982. The 88-year-old male cyclist was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1982
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36618, longitude -0.01783, in the LN11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in East Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198232C060582
- Council area
- East Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 157
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 1097
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A1097 in East Lindsey, 13 June 1988
54 m awayRef 198832C061588
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57 m awayRef 2025320307775
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B1200 in East Lindsey, 26 April 2022
66 m awayRef 2022320236357
Slight
Car crash on the A1097 in East Lindsey, 23 June 1988
67 m awayRef 198832C066988
Slight
Car crash on the A1097 in East Lindsey, 23 July 1985
67 m awayRef 198532C064785
Slight
Car crash on the A157 in East Lindsey, 24 August 1985
89 m awayRef 198532C079985
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 88 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 88, 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 198232C060582 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Lindsey road accident statistics for 1982.