A1232 crash in Colchester on 1 December 2007 at 19:40 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A1232 in Colchester at 19:40 on Saturday 1 December 2007. The 67-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8935, longitude 0.91791, in the CO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Colchester, CO1 2ZF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200742I497912
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1232
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1992.
Slight
Honda C50LA crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 7 December 1992
At the same spotRef 19924200E1087
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 23 April 2009
10 m awayRef 200942I120204
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 3 April 1996
10 m awayRef 19964200E0140
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 11 August 1993
10 m awayRef 19934200E0634
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 11 March 1993
10 m awayRef 19934200E0187
Serious
Hyundai ix20 crash on the A1232 in Colchester, 17 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025421630003
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 67, 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 200742I497912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2007.