Serious A448 crash in Bromsgrove on 19 September 1983 at 10:50 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove at 10:50 on Monday 19 September 1983. The 37-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 1983
- Monday, 10:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33285, longitude -2.03782, in the B60 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983220209052
- Council area
- Bromsgrove
- Police force
- West Mercia
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 448
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 2025.
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 16 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025221684506
Fatal
Ford Transit crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 3 November 2012
10 m awayRef 201222D204441
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 23 April 1982
36 m awayRef 1982220204057
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 3 March 2017
44 m awayRef 2017220165248
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 29 November 1990
50 m awayRef 1990220211065
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A448 in Bromsgrove, 14 June 1994
58 m awayRef 199422RT06158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 37, on vehicle 2 (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 1983220209052 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromsgrove road accident statistics for 1983.