A34 crash in Manchester on 24 March 2023 at 20:42 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A34 in Manchester at 20:42 on Friday 24 March 2023. The 54-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2023
- Friday, 20:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.47115, longitude -2.23793, in the M1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ardwick, Manchester, M13 9JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023061298692
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- 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
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 2021.
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 15 August 2021
2 m awayRef 2021061101779
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Manchester, 1 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022061252466
Slight
Peugeot Expert crash on the A34 in Manchester, 15 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025061542063
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A34 in Manchester, 12 October 2000
5 m awayRef 200006C012286
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A34 in Manchester, 13 March 2008
5 m awayRef 200806B091047
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A34 in Manchester, 6 October 2008
5 m awayRef 200806B002897
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Cycle lane (on main carriageway)
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 54, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2023061298692 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2023.