Serious C road crash in Gloucester GL1 on 1 December 2008 at 10:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Gloucester at 10:30 on Monday 1 December 2008. The 48-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2008
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84804, longitude -2.2546, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moreland, Gloucester, GL1 5HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530196841
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 6 August 1981
At the same spotRef 1981530WI0488
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Gloucester, 17 February 2005
At the same spotRef 2005530181072
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 29 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982530BI0870
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 17 March 1988
10 m awayRef 1988530BI0161
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 30 January 1984
10 m awayRef 1984530BI0068
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 31 October 1985
10 m awayRef 1985530BI0712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 48, 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 2008530196841 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2008.