Serious C road crash in the South Hams PL6 on 6 July 1997 at 11:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in the South Hams at 11:15 on Sunday 6 July 1997. The 31-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
- 6 Jul 1997
- Sunday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.44833, longitude -4.07467, in the PL6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199750E211660
- Council area
- South Hams
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
- Highway authority
- Devon
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 92 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 April 1997.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in the South Hams, 20 April 1997
92 m awayRef 199750E210957
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Slight
Mercedes crash on a C road in the South Hams, 2 July 1998
300 m awayRef 199850E211471
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in the South Hams, 24 August 1991
399 m awayRef 199150E211821
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Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 2 April 2004
400 m awayRef 200450E53E146
Slight
Ford B-Max crash on an unclassified road in the South Hams, 21 June 2024
401 m awayRef 2024501495076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 31, 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 199750E211660 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Hams road accident statistics for 1997.