A431 crash in Bristol on 23 April 1993 at 15:15 involving an Austin Morris Maxi
A vehicle, an Austin Morris Maxi and an Austin Maestro were involved in a crash on the A431 in Bristol at 15:15 on Friday 23 April 1993. The 29-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 65-year-old male driver of the Austin Morris Maxi were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 1993
- Friday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Austin Morris Maxi and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45721, longitude -2.53018, in the BS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19935293F5647
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 431
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 1 December 2000.
Fatal
Rover 600 Series crash on the A431 in Bristol, 1 December 2000
At the same spotRef 2000520151980
Slight
Austin Morris Maxi crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 26 March 1993
At the same spotRef 19935293F5496
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A431 in Bristol, 7 September 2021
7 m awayRef 2021522200631
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A431 in Bristol, 23 October 2024
8 m awayRef 2024522500209
Slight
Car crash on the A431 in Bristol, 10 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198952CG00199
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B431 in Bristol, 4 February 1991
10 m awayRef 19915291C0219
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Morris Maxi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Austin Morris Maxi)
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 19935293F5647 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1993.