Serious C road crash in Cambridge CB1 on 26 July 2011 at 15:09 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cambridge at 15:09 on Tuesday 26 July 2011. The 28-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jul 2011
- Tuesday, 15:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18791, longitude 0.14487, in the CB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Queen Edith's, Cambridge, CB1 7TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011350764211
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 serious injury crash on 14 January 2001.
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Slight
Honda Accord crash on a C road in Cambridge, 26 November 1991
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Slight
Leyland Cars Mini crash on a C road in Cambridge, 4 October 1991
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 28, 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 2011350764211 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2011.