A345 crash in Wiltshire on 12 October 2007 at 19:37 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A Vauxhall Astra van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 19:37 on Friday 12 October 2007. The 46-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2007
- Friday, 19:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32974, longitude -1.77879, in the SN9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200754EC35807
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 21 March 2004
14 m awayRef 200454AP15404
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 10 April 2019
18 m awayRef 2019543478019
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 19 August 2012
42 m awayRef 2012547395512
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 8 May 2000
42 m awayRef 200054AP26200
Fatal
Suzuki Grand Vitara crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 12 October 2023
55 m awayRef 202354A851823
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 9 May 2003
57 m awayRef 200354AP25203
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 46, 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 200754EC35807 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2007.