Serious C road crash in South Norfolk NR20 on 21 March 1983 at 16:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in South Norfolk at 16:20 on Monday 21 March 1983. The 19-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Mar 1983
- Monday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65884, longitude 1.05453, in the NR20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983360050368
- Council area
- South Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2006.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1983360050368 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Norfolk road accident statistics for 1983.