C road crash in Stroud GL10 on 11 December 1998 at 08:55 involving a Ford Sierra
A car and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on a C road in Stroud at 08:55 on Friday 11 December 1998. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 1998
- Friday, 08:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69777, longitude -2.28456, in the GL10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998530BI2612
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 June 2001.
Fatal
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on a C road in Stroud, 21 June 2001
50 m awayRef 2001530AI2019
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 5 October 1982
148 m awayRef 1982530CI0496
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 30 July 1991
149 m awayRef 1991530BI0656
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 9 December 1981
214 m awayRef 1981530EI0584
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Stroud, 30 May 1998
239 m awayRef 1998530BI1075
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 8 August 1985
348 m awayRef 1985530CI0356
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1998530BI2612 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 1998.