B4059 crash in South Gloucestershire on 2 August 2001 at 14:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire at 14:50 on Thursday 2 August 2001. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2001
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55767, longitude -2.47137, in the BS37 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001520104647
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4059
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 15 May 1981
At the same spotRef 198152DCH0698
Slight
Car crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 13 May 1997
10 m awayRef 1997520041252
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 2 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002520116424
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 25 June 2024
31 m awayRef 2024522402039
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4059 in South Gloucestershire, 12 June 2014
39 m awayRef 2014521403950
Slight
Hyundai ix35 crash on the B4509 in South Gloucestershire, 7 February 2017
92 m awayRef 2017521700980
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 2001520104647 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 2001.