Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR2 on 5 January 2003 at 18:58 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worcester at 18:58 on Sunday 5 January 2003. The 35-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2003
- Sunday, 18:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1906, longitude -2.25129, in the WR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dines Green & Grove Farm, Worcester, WR2 5UD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200322CA32863
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 August 2012.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 20 August 2012
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 14 January 1991
32 m awayRef 1991220401022
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 8 May 2024
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Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 22 February 2020
49 m awayRef 2020220937365
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 18 August 1984
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 11 July 1982
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- 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 200322CA32863 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2003.