Serious A46 crash in Tewkesbury on 17 May 2011 at 09:10 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury at 09:10 on Tuesday 17 May 2011. The 57-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 2011
- Tuesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86615, longitude -2.11368, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Shurdington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shurdington, Tewkesbury, GL51 4SL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011530204705
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 4 May 1991.
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 4 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991530AI0555
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 21 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991530AI5162
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 15 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997530AI0485
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 21 November 2002
At the same spotRef 2002530AI4230
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 13 January 2012
2 m awayRef 2012530205821
Slight
Honda MSX125 crash on the A46 in Tewkesbury, 22 August 2015
4 m awayRef 2015530209751
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 57, 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 2011530204705 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2011.