Serious B4228 crash in the Forest of Dean on 2 July 2013 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean at 18:00 on Tuesday 2 July 2013. The 37-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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Jul 2013
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79355, longitude -2.61584, in the GL16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coleford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coleford, Forest of Dean, GL16 8SH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013530208100
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4228
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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 19 September 2024.
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean, 19 September 2024
1 m awayRef 2024531493537
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean, 27 February 2018
3 m awayRef 2018530292802
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 15 December 1994
4 m awayRef 1994530BI2419
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean, 5 July 2004
4 m awayRef 2004530AI2388
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean, 31 October 2021
29 m awayRef 2021531134415
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the B4228 in the Forest of Dean, 19 November 2020
34 m awayRef 2020531003694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 2013530208100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 2013.