Serious unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL1 on 7 September 2012 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 14:30 on Friday 7 September 2012. The 38-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
- 7 Sep 2012
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86182, longitude -2.24232, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Gloucester, GL1 1LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207191
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2001.
Slight
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 18 January 2004
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 21 March 1980
13 m awayRef 1980530WI0172
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 17 November 2003
15 m awayRef 2003530AI3978
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 7 February 2001
22 m awayRef 2001530AI0467
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 38, 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 2012530207191 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2012.