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Serious unclassified road crash in Worcester WR4 on 15 March 1997 at 17:30 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Worcester at 17:30 on Saturday 15 March 1997. The 41-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
15 Mar 1997
Saturday, 17:30
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20586, longitude -2.18258, in the WR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester.

Map of where the crash happened in Worcester

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199722CM01415
Council area
Worcester
Police force
West Mercia
Highway authority
Worcestershire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 41, 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 199722CM01415 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 1997.