A322 crash in Guildford on 23 February 2011 at 18:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A322 in Guildford at 18:30 on Wednesday 23 February 2011. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2011
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24325, longitude -0.57635, in the GU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoke, Guildford, GU1 4PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145GU58839
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 322
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 1998.
Slight
Car crash on the A322 in Guildford, 4 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199845WG00197
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A322 in Guildford, 26 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WG00450
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A322 in Guildford, 2 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200245RW21804
Serious
MAN crash on the A322 in Guildford, 13 April 2011
At the same spotRef 201145GU60537
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A322 in Guildford, 9 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WG00122
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A322 in Guildford, 17 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201145GU66917
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 201145GU58839 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2011.