Serious C road crash in East Hertfordshire SG9 on 17 February 2011 at 10:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on a C road in East Hertfordshire at 10:30 on Thursday 17 February 2011. The 79-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 2011
- Thursday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95092, longitude -0.02188, in the SG9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Buntingford.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20114100A0146
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 2004.
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 13 May 2004
22 m awayRef 20044100A0486
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 28 June 1985
40 m awayRef 19854141A2086
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 20 April 1987
40 m awayRef 19874141A2056
Slight
Car crash on the A10 in East Hertfordshire, 11 September 1979
40 m awayRef 19794141A2131
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in East Hertfordshire, 30 May 1987
60 m awayRef 19874141A2081
Slight
Van crash on a C road in East Hertfordshire, 23 March 2012
98 m awayRef 20124100A0160
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 79, 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 20114100A0146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2011.