C road crash in Swindon SN2 on 5 July 1986 at 16:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in Swindon at 16:00 on Saturday 5 July 1986. The 17-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 1986
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57663, longitude -1.78566, in the SN2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198654DN04276
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 7 July 2018.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 7 July 2018
1 m awayRef 2018546645818
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 7 April 2015
6 m awayRef 2015543026815
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Swindon, 16 March 1979
58 m awayRef 197954DD03069
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Swindon, 1 June 1994
64 m awayRef 199454DN03544
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Swindon, 22 June 1995
64 m awayRef 199554DN03645
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Swindon, 12 July 1985
67 m awayRef 198554DN04535
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198654DN04276 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 1986.