B3122 crash in Bristol on 17 March 2018 at 20:00 involving a Ford Focus
A bicycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B3122 in Bristol at 20:00 on Saturday 17 March 2018. The 36-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43641, longitude -2.58923, in the BS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Windmill Hill, Bristol, BS3 5HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521802066
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3122
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2016.
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Star crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 20 December 2016
2 m awayRef 2016521609591
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 11 May 2019
2 m awayRef 2019521903726
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B3120 in Bristol, 9 December 1991
2 m awayRef 19915291B1489
Serious
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 28 November 1997
2 m awayRef 1997521005971
Slight
Car crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 17 September 1982
2 m awayRef 198252BIS1251
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 27 February 2019
4 m awayRef 2019521901420
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 2018521802066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2018.