A4174 crash in South Gloucestershire on 1 December 1995 at 23:30 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van crashed on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire at 23:30 on Friday 1 December 1995. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1995
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50544, longitude -2.54126, in the BS34 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19955295E4701
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4174
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 May 1986.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 22 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198652DF00932
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 10 May 2010
22 m awayRef 2010521004083
Slight
BMW M3 crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 12 November 2025
40 m awayRef 2025522601065
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 4 August 1997
41 m awayRef 1997520066512
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 20 October 1986
61 m awayRef 198652DF01906
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 22 July 1979
63 m awayRef 197952EST1088
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside, crossed central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 19955295E4701 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 1995.