C road crash in Crawley RH11 on 2 November 1997 at 17:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Crawley at 17:00 on Sunday 2 November 1997. The 35-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 1997
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.0957, longitude -0.20787, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199747NA70832
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2008.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 6 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008470803533
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 6 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198847NA80509
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Crawley, 7 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199647NA60009
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 11 June 1998
14 m awayRef 199847N000361
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 19 September 1997
22 m awayRef 199747NA70616
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 13 December 1980
22 m awayRef 198047NA00971
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 35, on vehicle 2 (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 199747NA70832 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 1997.