Serious unclassified road crash in Guildford GU1 on 23 November 2015 at 17:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Guildford at 17:45 on Monday 23 November 2015. The 54-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2015
- Monday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23736, longitude -0.55396, in the GU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Guildford, GU1 2EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015450033643
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2006.
Slight
Honda CBR900RR crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 26 January 2006
76 m awayRef 200645GU79993
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 23 June 1982
155 m awayRef 198245GD00199
Serious
Car crash on the A246 in Guildford, 5 October 1982
161 m awayRef 198245GD00366
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A246 in Guildford, 9 September 1988
168 m awayRef 198845WG00320
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A246 in Guildford, 29 April 1999
169 m awayRef 199945WG00240
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A246 in Guildford, 28 June 1992
169 m awayRef 199245WG00238
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 54, on vehicle 1 (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 2015450033643 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2015.