C road crash in Watford WD17 on 17 July 2008 at 13:00 involving a Toyota
A Toyota and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Watford at 13:00 on Thursday 17 July 2008. The 38-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2008
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.65827, longitude -0.39697, in the WD17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Watford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Central, Watford, WD17 1BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Watford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100C0727
- Council area
- Watford
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 September 1993.
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Serious
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Watford, 16 December 1998
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Serious
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10 m awayRef 19964100C0046
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Watford, 4 April 2011
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,790 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 20084100C0727 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Watford road accident statistics for 2008.