C road crash in Cambridge CB2 on 11 October 2007 at 22:55 involving a Toyota Avensis taxi
A Toyota Avensis taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cambridge at 22:55 on Thursday 11 October 2007. The 36-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2007
- Thursday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20835, longitude 0.11863, in the CB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 3AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007350425307
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1999.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,762 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 2007350425307 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2007.