A3062 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 29 March 2018 at 13:00 involving a Mercedes GLC Class
A Mercedes GLC Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A3062 in Bath and North East Somerset at 13:00 on Thursday 29 March 2018. The 62-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2018
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes GLC Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37237, longitude -2.34915, in the BA2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Widcombe & Lyncombe, Bath and North East Somerset, BA2 4HL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521803552
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3062
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 1993.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 21 May 1993
7 m awayRef 19935293G1721
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 2 November 2019
9 m awayRef 2019521906734
Slight
Citroen Nemo crash on the A3062 in Bath and North East Somerset, 11 January 2010
10 m awayRef 2010521000583
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 12 November 2008
12 m awayRef 2008520811702
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A3062 in Bath and North East Somerset, 19 July 1990
12 m awayRef 19905290E0892
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A3062 in Bath and North East Somerset, 18 May 2001
12 m awayRef 2001520066371
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 62 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 62, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018521803552 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2018.