Serious unclassified road crash in Guildford GU23 on 5 August 2018 at 13:47 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Guildford at 13:47 on Sunday 5 August 2018. The 57-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Aug 2018
- Sunday, 13:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30328, longitude -0.44675, in the GU23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450315996
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 January 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Guildford, 4 January 1984
9 m awayRef 198445CD00007
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 5 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025451663843
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Guildford, 27 February 1995
14 m awayRef 199545WG00105
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Guildford, 22 October 1986
16 m awayRef 198645NW00450
Serious
Honda GLR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 30 August 2025
17 m awayRef 2025451635402
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Guildford, 19 September 1979
17 m awayRef 197945CD00272
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 57, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018450315996 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2018.