Serious unclassified road crash in Milton Keynes MK3 on 17 May 1983 at 22:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes at 22:30 on Tuesday 17 May 1983. The 47-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 1983
- Tuesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.00238, longitude -0.7399, in the MK3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bletchley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198343D034053
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 26 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198643D066116
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 28 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198443D048074
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 14 January 1980
14 m awayRef 198043D022010
Slight
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35 m awayRef 2025430178990
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 24 August 1987
58 m awayRef 198743D055087
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Milton Keynes, 27 February 2019
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 47, 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 198343D034053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 1983.