B4465 crash in South Gloucestershire on 6 January 1989 at 10:00 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire at 10:00 on Friday 6 January 1989. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jan 1989
- Friday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48203, longitude -2.46653, 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
- 198952DC00037
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4465
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 10 June 1993
At the same spotRef 19935293E2002
Slight
Car crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 28 April 1987
51 m awayRef 198752DC00719
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 14 December 2017
52 m awayRef 2017521708439
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 2 June 2005
54 m awayRef 2005520070254
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 19 May 2025
75 m awayRef 2025522501054
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 1 January 1991
112 m awayRef 19915291N4982
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198952DC00037 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 1989.