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A303 crash in Wiltshire on 4 December 1996 at 05:43 involving a car

A car crashed on the A303 in Wiltshire at 05:43 on Wednesday 4 December 1996. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
4 Dec 1996
Wednesday, 05:43
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.09879, longitude -2.22274, in the BA12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199654AT06136
Council area
Wiltshire
Police force
Wiltshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
303
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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, no street lighting
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 12 September 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 40, 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 199654AT06136 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 1996.