A420 crash in South Gloucestershire on 6 April 2000 at 16:50 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra hit a pedestrian on the A420 in South Gloucestershire at 16:50 on Thursday 6 April 2000. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2000
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46154, longitude -2.49571, in the BS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000520043346
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 420
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 March 2018.
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 5 March 2018
6 m awayRef 2018521802586
Slight
Citroen C5 crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 26 November 2010
10 m awayRef 2010521009429
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 8 August 1990
10 m awayRef 19905290D3577
Slight
Daihatsu Applause crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 21 August 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520072382
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 1 June 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520050902
Slight
Car crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 2 November 1981
10 m awayRef 198152DSK1738
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2000520043346 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 2000.