Unclassified road crash in Cheltenham GL51 on 13 December 2017 at 18:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham at 18:10 on Wednesday 13 December 2017. The 17-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.908, longitude -2.08436, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peter's, Cheltenham, GL51 8JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017530250405
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2024.
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 18 June 2024
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 21 February 2012
4 m awayRef 2012530206302
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 12 September 1984
5 m awayRef 1984530AI0679
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 12 November 1980
5 m awayRef 1980530NI0783
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 6 May 1992
5 m awayRef 1992530AI0599
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2017530250405 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2017.