Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU1 on 16 March 2012 at 07:45 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 07:45 on Friday 16 March 2012. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2012
- Friday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.24186, longitude -0.58112, in the GU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201245GU69092
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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 10 February 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 10 February 1981
At the same spotRef 198145GD00056
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 15 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201245GU73998
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 18 October 1980
20 m awayRef 198045GD00424
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 19 December 2008
20 m awayRef 200845GU32692
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 4 December 1999
20 m awayRef 199945WG00724
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 13 March 2024
21 m awayRef 2024451423324
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,795 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 201245GU69092 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 2012.