Serious unclassified road crash in Test Valley SO51 on 7 April 2024 at 20:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Test Valley at 20:15 on Sunday 7 April 2024. The 14-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Apr 2024
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.00736, longitude -1.46852, in the SO51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Romsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024440146170
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
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
- 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
- 92%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 8%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 95 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 10 October 1982
95 m awayRef 1982440DC0247
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 10 July 1990
208 m awayRef 1990440LR0214
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Test Valley, 2 November 2000
221 m awayRef 2000440LR0330
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 25 March 1980
243 m awayRef 1980440DC0072
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 5 October 1981
243 m awayRef 1981440DC0277
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Test Valley, 19 January 1981
243 m awayRef 1981440DC0017
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024440146170 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2024.