A104 crash in Waltham Forest on 9 January 2013 at 18:25 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest at 18:25 on Wednesday 9 January 2013. The 31-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2013
- Wednesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58011, longitude -0.00295, in the E17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Waltham Forest. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wood Street, Waltham Forest, E17 3NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waltham Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301JC30007
- Council area
- Waltham Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 2001.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 10 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200101JC00800
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 10 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501JL00567
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 27 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010JL0528
Slight
Bus crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 10 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401JL00299
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 13 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401JL00467
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A104 in Waltham Forest, 11 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401JC30734
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 201301JC30007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waltham Forest road accident statistics for 2013.