Unclassified road crash in Manchester on 29 December 1989 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Manchester at 16:30 on Friday 29 December 1989. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1989
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198906E222389
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (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 198906E222389 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 1989.