Unclassified road crash in Dover CT16 on 29 July 2010 at 06:02 involving a Mercedes Sprinter lorry
A bicycle and a Mercedes Sprinter lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dover at 06:02 on Thursday 29 July 2010. The 24-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2010
- Thursday, 06:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13872, longitude 1.29612, in the CT16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dover. It is one of the crashes that make up the Buckland, Dover, CT16 2AD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010460189246
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1994.
Slight
Bedford Midi crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 12 November 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460818810
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 27 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199746SK00758
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 23 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992460809804
Slight
Vauxhall crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 24 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200246SK61899
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 27 September 1994
At the same spotRef 1994460818146
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Dover, 17 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200446SK89694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 24, on vehicle 1 (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 2010460189246 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 2010.