Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull CV7 on 15 October 2015 at 19:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 19:30 on Thursday 15 October 2015. The 45-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43551, longitude -1.64146, in the CV7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015200032450
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 9 November 1999
29 m awayRef 199920L115301
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 6 June 1999
29 m awayRef 199920L056701
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 2 June 2004
63 m awayRef 200420L101801
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 May 2000
102 m awayRef 200020L053901
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 26 September 1988
113 m awayRef 19882000L0762
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 May 1988
113 m awayRef 19882000L0389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 45, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2015200032450 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2015.