Serious A5078 crash in Cheshire East on 30 November 2017 at 20:36 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East at 20:36 on Thursday 30 November 2017. The 17-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 2017
- Thursday, 20:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.09506, longitude -2.44175, in the CW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crewe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crewe South, Cheshire East, CW2 7DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077386285
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5078
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5078
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2024.
Slight
Hyundai ix20 crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 5 November 2024
1 m awayRef 2024070941260
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B1 in Cheshire East, 24 October 2017
1 m awayRef 2017077343446
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on the A532 in Cheshire East, 3 October 2025
4 m awayRef 2025070815668
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 19 October 2020
4 m awayRef 2020070634183
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A5078 in Cheshire East, 8 October 2014
4 m awayRef 2014074299543
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 6 September 2016
5 m awayRef 2016076274113
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2017077386285 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2017.