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A46 crash in Stroud on 3 June 1983 at 21:00 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A46 in Stroud at 21:00 on Friday 3 June 1983. The 12-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
3 Jun 1983
Friday, 21:00
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72908, longitude -2.23306, in the GL5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Stroud

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983530CI0243
Council area
Stroud
Police force
Gloucestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
46
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
50 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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1987.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    U-turn
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    12 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    62 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 12, 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 1983530CI0243 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 1983.