A4 crash in Bristol on 28 July 1983 at 23:18 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Bristol at 23:18 on Thursday 28 July 1983. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 23:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44761, longitude -2.58216, in the BS1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198352ACE1128
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 15 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198552AC01181
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 6 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198552AC00177
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A4 in Bristol, 27 January 1982
At the same spotRef 198252ACE0113
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A4 in Bristol, 24 March 2012
At the same spotRef 2012521202837
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 4 December 1983
At the same spotRef 198352ACE1814
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4 in Bristol, 6 May 2018
4 m awayRef 2018521803086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198352ACE1128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1983.