C road crash in Cambridge CB4 on 7 January 2015 at 08:00 involving a BMW X1
A BMW X1 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cambridge at 08:00 on Wednesday 7 January 2015. The 40-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jan 2015
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW X1 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.21778, longitude 0.1413, in the CB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cambridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbey, Cambridge, CB5 8HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cambridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015350035615
- Council area
- Cambridge
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 1987.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 20 July 1987
22 m awayRef 1987352130187
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Cambridge, 13 July 2005
22 m awayRef 2005350338205
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on a C road in Cambridge, 14 November 2005
22 m awayRef 2005350571405
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Cambridge, 25 January 2002
41 m awayRef 2002350043302
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in Cambridge, 23 January 2007
51 m awayRef 2007350029407
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on a C road in Cambridge, 10 March 1990
51 m awayRef 1990352064890
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 40, 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 2015350035615 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cambridge road accident statistics for 2015.