Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 18 April 2013 at 07:25 involving a bicycle
A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 07:25 on Thursday 18 April 2013. The 47-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2013
- Thursday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06497, longitude -2.83562, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Torrisholme, Lancaster, LA3 3AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304BB13030
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 March 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 6 March 2000
2 m awayRef 200004B016300
Slight
Van crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 11 December 1979
2 m awayRef 1979040BB1616
Serious
Car crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 19 December 1985
2 m awayRef 1985040BB1871
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 10 September 1998
2 m awayRef 199804B057098
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 8 October 1999
2 m awayRef 199904B067099
Slight
Scooter crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 25 August 1989
2 m awayRef 1989040BB1307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, 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 201304BB13030 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2013.