Serious B4055 crash in South Gloucestershire on 15 July 2014 at 19:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B4055 in South Gloucestershire at 19:30 on Tuesday 15 July 2014. The 65-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jul 2014
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56851, longitude -2.63981, in the BS35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521405949
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4055
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 37 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the B4055 in South Gloucestershire, 29 October 2012
37 m awayRef 2012521207560
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M4 in South Gloucestershire, 29 June 2000
75 m awayRef 2000520079499
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M4 in South Gloucestershire, 6 February 2002
159 m awayRef 2002520019208
Slight
Leyland crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 18 November 1993
165 m awayRef 19935293E4274
Serious
Van crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 20 August 1979
173 m awayRef 197952EFI1239
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A403 in South Gloucestershire, 16 May 1982
175 m awayRef 198252DFI0779
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 65, 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 2014521405949 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2014.