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Serious unclassified road crash in Somerset BA11 on 4 December 1997 at 05:35 involving a bicycle

A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Somerset at 05:35 on Thursday 4 December 1997. The 57-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Dec 1997
Thursday, 05:35
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23249, longitude -2.34083, in the BA11 postcode district. The location was in the former Mendip district.

Map of where the crash happened in Somerset

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1997520000703
Council area
Somerset
Police force
Avon and Somerset

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 81 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 November 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    57 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 57, 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 1997520000703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Somerset road accident statistics for 1997.