A4174 crash in South Gloucestershire on 19 July 1987 at 09:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire at 09:10 on Sunday 19 July 1987. A 16-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 1987
- Sunday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50418, longitude -2.52107, in the BS16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752DS01223
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4174
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4058
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 4 December 1996
At the same spotRef 19965296F6428
Slight
Car crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 7 November 2020
4 m awayRef 2020522004368
Serious
Car crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 16 September 2013
4 m awayRef 2013521307390
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 5 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025522501554
Slight
Iveco crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 1 September 2000
10 m awayRef 2000520106763
Slight
Car crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 2 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198752DS02100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, 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 198752DS01223 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 1987.