Serious C road crash in Wiltshire BA13 on 3 March 1995 at 15:45 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion hit a pedestrian on a C road in Wiltshire at 15:45 on Friday 3 March 1995. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Mar 1995
- Friday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28497, longitude -2.20069, in the BA13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199554CW01105
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the B3097 in Wiltshire, 8 March 2024
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Serious
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Slight
Ford Puma crash on the B3097 in Wiltshire, 14 January 2013
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B3097 in Wiltshire, 24 June 2025
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 18 May 1997
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 199554CW01105 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 1995.