Serious unclassified road crash in Stevenage SG1 on 20 December 2002 at 14:00 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage at 14:00 on Friday 20 December 2002. The 13-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2002
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91748, longitude -0.1964, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Stevenage, SG1 3RZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20024100E0775
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 33 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2019.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 2 April 2019
33 m awayRef 2019410830259
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 24 August 1999
41 m awayRef 19994100E0167
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 26 January 2000
41 m awayRef 20004100E0021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 13 April 2009
45 m awayRef 20094100E0180
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stevenage, 2 November 1982
50 m awayRef 19824141E1275
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Stevenage, 31 August 1984
81 m awayRef 19844141E1207
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 13, 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 20024100E0775 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2002.