Serious unclassified road crash in Crawley RH11 on 21 May 2015 at 23:44 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Crawley at 23:44 on Thursday 21 May 2015. The 36-year-old female 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
- 21 May 2015
- Thursday, 23:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12544, longitude -0.20852, in the RH11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley Green & Tushmore, Crawley, RH11 7PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471502857
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
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
- 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
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Crawley, 4 September 2002
8 m awayRef 200247K154305
Slight
Nissan Note crash on a C road in Crawley, 5 October 2008
16 m awayRef 2008470807751
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 7 December 2017
27 m awayRef 2017471706967
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 26 November 2025
35 m awayRef 2025471674193
Serious
Morris Mini crash on a C road in Crawley, 11 April 1994
38 m awayRef 199447NA40172
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Crawley, 18 October 1987
38 m awayRef 198747NA70561
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 36, on vehicle 1 (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 2015471502857 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2015.