Serious unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS35 on 6 August 1982 at 23:10 involving a van
A van crashed on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 23:10 on Friday 6 August 1982. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 17-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Aug 1982
- Friday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60223, longitude -2.51136, in the BS35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornbury.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198252DFT1278
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 12 October 1995
20 m awayRef 19955295E3770
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 3 September 1999
45 m awayRef 1999520107484
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 15 October 2024
80 m awayRef 2024522402950
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 19 January 1979
108 m awayRef 197952EFT0107
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 18 December 2003
168 m awayRef 2003520169676
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 9 October 2017
176 m awayRef 2017521707358
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198252DFT1278 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 1982.