B4465 crash in South Gloucestershire on 26 October 1989 at 19:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire at 19:00 on Thursday 26 October 1989. The 26-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 1989
- Thursday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5119, longitude -2.41208, in the BS37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198952DC01779
- 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
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2006.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 18 October 2006
80 m awayRef 2006520126632
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 24 March 2014
84 m awayRef 2014521403747
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1400 crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 22 October 2025
90 m awayRef 2025522600287
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 7 March 1983
91 m awayRef 198352DCH0363
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 12 August 2010
94 m awayRef 2010521006692
Slight
Car crash on the B4465 in South Gloucestershire, 27 October 1988
100 m awayRef 198852DC01868
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,256 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, 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 198952DC01779 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.