C road crash in Merton KT3 on 23 June 2011 at 18:19 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Merton at 18:19 on Thursday 23 June 2011. The 31-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
- 23 Jun 2011
- Thursday, 18:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39397, longitude -0.23963, in the KT3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Barnes, Merton, KT3 6JX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201101VW40279
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 2 December 1985.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 2 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501VW00838
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 1 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801VW00546
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 6 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801VW00628
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Merton, 6 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701VW00739
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Merton, 4 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801VW00270
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on a C road in Merton, 25 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010611625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 201101VW40279 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2011.