Serious B661 crash in Huntingdonshire on 25 August 1997 at 15:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B661 in Huntingdonshire at 15:45 on Monday 25 August 1997. The 53-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1997
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28629, longitude -0.30669, in the PE28 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997350431097
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 661
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2006.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 1 June 2006
45 m awayRef 2006350238806
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 24 September 1993
50 m awayRef 1993350451493
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 15 May 1998
51 m awayRef 1998350236498
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 25 February 2009
51 m awayRef 2009350066909
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 21 August 2014
61 m awayRef 2014350132514
Fatal
Honda NS125R crash on the B661 in Huntingdonshire, 9 October 1993
64 m awayRef 1993350479193
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 53, 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 1997350431097 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 1997.