Serious C road crash in Wiltshire SN14 on 1 January 2002 at 03:29 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on a C road in Wiltshire at 03:29 on Tuesday 1 January 2002. The 18-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2002
- Tuesday, 03:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46008, longitude -2.19558, in the SN14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200254CS00102
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2011.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 5 May 2011
14 m awayRef 201154EP16011
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 17 September 1982
22 m awayRef 198254CS01912
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 14 July 1991
112 m awayRef 199154CS03941
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 24 June 1983
120 m awayRef 198354CS01433
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 9 August 1980
163 m awayRef 198054CS01680
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 18 April 1989
163 m awayRef 198954CS01289
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,156 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 200254CS00102 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 2002.