Serious A403 crash in South Gloucestershire on 16 May 1982 at 15:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire at 15:05 on Sunday 16 May 1982. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 16 May 1982
- Sunday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56968, longitude -2.64158, in the BS35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198252DFI0779
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 403
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2020.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 19 December 2020
18 m awayRef 2020522100162
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M4 in South Gloucestershire, 6 February 2002
85 m awayRef 2002520019208
Slight
Citroen CX crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 29 August 1993
92 m awayRef 19935293E3117
Slight
Leyland crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 18 November 1993
108 m awayRef 19935293E4274
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the M4 in South Gloucestershire, 16 December 2008
114 m awayRef 2008520900148
Serious
Van crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 20 August 1979
130 m awayRef 197952EFI1239
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 198252DFI0779 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 1982.