Serious unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG40 on 18 June 1989 at 08:55 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 08:55 on Sunday 18 June 1989. The 58-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 1989
- Sunday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37629, longitude -0.86363, in the RG40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wokingham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198943E065069
- Council area
- Wokingham
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 58, 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 198943E065069 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 1989.