Serious B4017 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 30 April 2017 at 14:47 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse at 14:47 on Sunday 30 April 2017. The 59-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 14:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6868, longitude -1.29273, in the OX14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abingdon Fitzharris, Vale of White Horse, OX14 1JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017430129111
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Oxfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4017
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 3 December 1996
23 m awayRef 199643U004126
Serious
Car crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 5 March 1980
25 m awayRef 198043H020030
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 10 April 2006
30 m awayRef 200643P084046
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 12 July 2006
30 m awayRef 200643P161076
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 10 May 2005
30 m awayRef 200543P085055
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4017 in the Vale of White Horse, 21 May 2012
30 m awayRef 201243P225052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 59, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017430129111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 2017.