Unclassified road crash in the Vale of Glamorgan CF71 on 28 October 1983 at 12:10 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in the Vale of Glamorgan at 12:10 on Friday 28 October 1983. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry road with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 1983
- Friday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44206, longitude -3.49346, in the CF71 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983620E11070
- Council area
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2006.
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B4270 in the Vale of Glamorgan, 26 April 1997
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Serious
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, 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 1983620E11070 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of Glamorgan road accident statistics for 1983.