Serious unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS15 on 30 June 1998 at 16:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 16:30 on Tuesday 30 June 1998. The 8-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jun 1998
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4623, longitude -2.49555, in the BS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998520072656
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 8, 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 1998520072656 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 1998.