Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME9 on 1 May 2016 at 12:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Swale at 12:15 on Sunday 1 May 2016. The 29-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 May 2016
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38087, longitude 0.7304, in the ME9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Swale, ME9 8FS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016460064188
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Canterbury, 14 September 1980
9 m awayRef 1980466207090
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swale, 8 November 1988
9 m awayRef 198846BD09878
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 12 August 1979
9 m awayRef 1979466407259
Fatal
Van crash on the A249 in Swale, 21 June 1985
9 m awayRef 1985462405155
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A249 in Swale, 14 April 1987
9 m awayRef 1987462403207
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A249 in Swale, 24 May 1997
32 m awayRef 199746SW08833
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 29, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016460064188 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 2016.