A4 crash in Wiltshire on 26 March 2000 at 22:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A4 in Wiltshire at 22:45 on Sunday 26 March 2000. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2000
- Sunday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41971, longitude -1.71709, in the SN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Marlborough.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200054AH17700
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 June 2014.
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 29 June 2014
9 m awayRef 2014546041614
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 29 June 1979
10 m awayRef 197954DM01879
Slight
Renault Extra crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 30 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200454AH48804
Serious
Car crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 20 June 1989
32 m awayRef 198954DM00529
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 18 January 2023
42 m awayRef 2023540622823
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Wiltshire, 25 June 1984
42 m awayRef 198454DM01384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200054AH17700 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 2000.