A48 crash in the Forest of Dean on 21 September 1993 at 13:17 involving an Austin Morris Mini
An Austin Morris Mini crashed on the A48 in the Forest of Dean at 13:17 on Tuesday 21 September 1993. The 23-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 1993
- Tuesday, 13:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82341, longitude -2.39808, in the GL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993530BI1753
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1999.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 23 June 1999
14 m awayRef 1999530AI2370
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 14 December 1989
22 m awayRef 1989530BI0851
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 29 November 2008
45 m awayRef 2008530196778
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 11 October 1992
45 m awayRef 1992530BI1928
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 7 January 2015
53 m awayRef 2015530209316
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 30 September 1987
57 m awayRef 1987530BI0712
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
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 1993530BI1753 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 1993.