Unclassified road crash in Crawley RH6 on 19 October 2017 at 13:00 involving a Smart Forfour
A Smart Forfour and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 13:00 on Thursday 19 October 2017. The 25-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2017
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Forfour and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14153, longitude -0.16411, in the RH6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley Green & Tushmore, Crawley, RH10 9RT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017471705921
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 4 June 2014
7 m awayRef 2014471403244
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 12 June 2016
12 m awayRef 2016471603514
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Crawley, 30 April 1992
13 m awayRef 199247NA20240
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Crawley, 29 October 1991
13 m awayRef 199147NA10590
Slight
Mercedes CLS Class crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 25 January 2018
13 m awayRef 2018471800497
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 21 June 2012
15 m awayRef 2012471203140
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 25, on vehicle 2 (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 2017471705921 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 2017.