A40 crash in Cheltenham on 28 March 2012 at 18:40 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cheltenham at 18:40 on Wednesday 28 March 2012. The 49-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
- 28 Mar 2012
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8944, longitude -2.08266, in the GL50 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the College, Cheltenham, GL50 1NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530206485
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 January 2000.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 18 January 2000
1 m awayRef 2000530AI0849
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 6 August 2008
1 m awayRef 2008530195414
Slight
Van crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 7 July 1995
1 m awayRef 1995530AI0953
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 20 March 1993
1 m awayRef 1993530AI0375
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 17 February 2008
1 m awayRef 2008530193901
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A4015 in Cheltenham, 5 February 2018
3 m awayRef 2018530274657
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 49, 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 2012530206485 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2012.