Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS13 on 22 December 2004 at 22:42 involving a Daihatsu Sirion
A bus or coach and a Daihatsu Sirion were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 22:42 on Wednesday 22 December 2004. The 23-year-old male driver of the Daihatsu Sirion was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 22:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Daihatsu Sirion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42356, longitude -2.61511, in the BS13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopsworth, Bristol, BS13 7JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004520003026
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1981.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 29 March 1981
At the same spotRef 198152BIS0359
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198352BIS1031
Slight
Volkswagen Touareg crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 13 August 2025
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 15 July 2022
8 m awayRef 2022522203178
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 24 August 2001
10 m awayRef 2001520114651
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 8 July 1982
10 m awayRef 198252BIS0933
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Daihatsu Sirion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Daihatsu Sirion)
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 2004520003026 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2004.