Serious B4058 crash in South Gloucestershire on 15 January 1984 at 02:05 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire at 02:05 on Sunday 15 January 1984. The 69-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 1984
- Sunday, 02:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5143, longitude -2.51139, in the BS16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198452DCH0111
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4058
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2019.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 6 October 2019
6 m awayRef 2019522000925
Serious
Car crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 24 February 1979
10 m awayRef 197952EST0322
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 5 June 1998
10 m awayRef 1998520061611
Serious
Car crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 29 March 1980
10 m awayRef 198052DST0509
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 21 May 1994
14 m awayRef 19945294E1945
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B4058 in South Gloucestershire, 5 December 2025
27 m awayRef 2025522600757
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198452DCH0111 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 1984.