Serious A603 crash in Cambridge on 29 November 2008 at 05:15 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A603 in Cambridge at 05:15 on Saturday 29 November 2008. The 58-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 05:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.20748, longitude 0.13689, in the CB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Cambridge, CB5 8HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008350858208
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 603
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2003.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 15 October 2003
10 m awayRef 2003350540703
Slight
Van crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 29 December 2008
10 m awayRef 2008358058208
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 26 April 2004
14 m awayRef 2004350203304
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 16 August 2007
14 m awayRef 2007350361307
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 23 July 1997
14 m awayRef 1997350370897
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A603 in Cambridge, 9 June 2006
14 m awayRef 2006350251306
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 58, 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 2008350858208 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 2008.