A4013 crash in Cheltenham on 21 May 1985 at 12:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4013 in Cheltenham at 12:20 on Tuesday 21 May 1985. The 49-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 1985
- Tuesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90434, longitude -2.09007, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985530AI0273
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4013
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A4013 in Cheltenham, 27 September 1984
10 m awayRef 1984530AI0725
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4633 in Cheltenham, 12 March 2005
10 m awayRef 2005530181417
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4633 in Cheltenham, 11 February 2005
10 m awayRef 2005530180955
Slight
Car crash on the A4013 in Cheltenham, 8 April 1985
20 m awayRef 1985530AI0184
Serious
Car crash on the A4013 in Cheltenham, 1 October 1986
22 m awayRef 1986530AI0648
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B4633 in Cheltenham, 4 March 2005
22 m awayRef 2005530181213
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 1985530AI0273 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 1985.