Serious unclassified road crash in Crawley RH10 on 21 June 2012 at 04:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 04:30 on Thursday 21 June 2012. The 47-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jun 2012
- Thursday, 04:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14146, longitude -0.16434, in the RH10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley Green & Tushmore, Crawley, RH10 9RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012471203140
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 4 June 2014
8 m awayRef 2014471403244
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on a C road in Crawley, 8 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199447NA40167
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 28 August 2012
10 m awayRef 2012471204418
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 12 June 2016
13 m awayRef 2016471603514
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 30 April 1992
14 m awayRef 199247NA20240
Slight
Smart Forfour crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 19 October 2017
15 m awayRef 2017471705921
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 47, 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 2012471203140 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2012.