Unclassified road crash in Gedling NG5 on 12 December 2008 at 18:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gedling at 18:00 on Friday 12 December 2008. The 37-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2008
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00307, longitude -1.12955, in the NG5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Arnold. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ernehale, Gedling, NG5 7FU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20083102D3513
- Council area
- Gedling
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 June 2005.
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Serious
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Serious
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Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on an unclassified road in Gedling, 12 March 2004
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- 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
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 20083102D3513 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 2008.