B4039 crash in South Gloucestershire on 21 November 1985 at 15:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4039 in South Gloucestershire at 15:10 on Thursday 21 November 1985. A 52-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 64 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52543, longitude -2.27743, in the GL9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198552DC02147
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4039
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 64 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B4039 in South Gloucestershire, 24 July 1982
36 m awayRef 198252DCH1194
Serious
Car crash on the B4039 in South Gloucestershire, 29 April 1981
73 m awayRef 198152DCH0625
Serious
Car crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 2 May 1988
149 m awayRef 198852DC00755
Slight
Car crash on the B4039 in South Gloucestershire, 2 October 2011
209 m awayRef 2011521106520
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 4 December 1988
245 m awayRef 198852DC02173
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 12 January 1993
265 m awayRef 19935293E0112
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198552DC02147 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 1985.