Serious unclassified road crash in Rugby CV22 on 27 March 1983 at 15:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rugby at 15:30 on Sunday 27 March 1983. The 15-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Mar 1983
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35641, longitude -1.27021, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983238300382
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2012.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 15, 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 1983238300382 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1983.