C road crash in York on 26 December 1986 at 15:25 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on a C road in York at 15:25 on Friday 26 December 1986. The 19-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 26 Dec 1986; Friday, 15:25
Vehicles: 1; Bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986126237144
Council area: York
Police force: North Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Dual carriageway
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: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Cyclist
Slight
Male, 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 1986126237144 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the York road accident statistics for 1986.