Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 23 June 2012 at 18:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 18:15 on Saturday 23 June 2012. The 26-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jun 2012
- Saturday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06522, longitude -2.87897, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Lancaster, LA3 1TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204BB12091
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 2006.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 10 January 2006
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 17 August 1982
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 5 June 1982
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Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 July 2011
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 25 November 2014
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
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 201204BB12091 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2012.