A4174 crash in South Gloucestershire on 25 January 1997 at 13:00 involving an Iveco-Ford minibus
A car and an Iveco-Ford minibus were involved in a crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire at 13:00 on Saturday 25 January 1997. A 7-year-old female passenger in the Iveco-Ford minibus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Iveco-Ford
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50554, longitude -2.53996, 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
- 1997520008212
- 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
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2004.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 13 December 2004
22 m awayRef 2004520167517
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 6 November 2006
32 m awayRef 2006520133809
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 4 February 1996
32 m awayRef 19965296F0332
Serious
BMW 6 Series crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 2 January 2021
41 m awayRef 2021522100227
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 4 August 1997
54 m awayRef 1997520066512
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 23 February 2004
73 m awayRef 2004520040215
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco-Ford
Minibus or motor caravan
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,445 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 7, minibus or motor caravan occupant, in vehicle 2 (Iveco-Ford)
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 1997520008212 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 1997.