Serious A603 crash in South Cambridgeshire on 5 December 2009 at 16:40 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire at 16:40 on Saturday 5 December 2009. The 37-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Dec 2009
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19101, longitude 0.07743, in the CB23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harston & Comberton, South Cambridgeshire, CB23 7AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Cambridgeshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009350416009
- Council area
- South Cambridgeshire
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 13 January 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 13 January 1998
At the same spotRef 1998350024098
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 19 May 1991
10 m awayRef 1991352113991
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 29 June 1991
10 m awayRef 1991352150491
Slight
Car crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 28 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982352066782
Serious
Car crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 18 January 1989
10 m awayRef 1989352010689
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A603 in South Cambridgeshire, 10 December 1995
10 m awayRef 1995350600495
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, 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 2009350416009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Cambridgeshire road accident statistics for 2009.