Serious unclassified road crash in Swindon SN5 on 13 November 2012 at 08:39 involving a Ford Transit van
A bicycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 08:39 on Tuesday 13 November 2012. The 24-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 2012
- Tuesday, 08:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54538, longitude -1.84249, in the SN5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swindon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lydiard, Freshbrook & Toothill, Swindon, SN5 8UD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swindon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201254A244612
- Council area
- Swindon
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2019.
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 July 2019
9 m awayRef 2019547413019
Slight
Daewoo Tacuma crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 31 October 2008
40 m awayRef 200854DN41808
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 23 January 1991
89 m awayRef 199154DN00641
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 15 December 1993
89 m awayRef 199354DN07643
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 29 July 2024
97 m awayRef 2024548890024
Slight
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 8 October 2006
130 m awayRef 200654DW45806
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 24, 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 201254A244612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 2012.