A4018 crash in Bristol on 27 April 2004 at 23:00 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A4018 in Bristol at 23:00 on Tuesday 27 April 2004. A 62-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 406 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2004
- Tuesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47005, longitude -2.61487, in the BS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 2QX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004520053490
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4018
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2000.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 2 November 2000
At the same spotRef 2000520139378
Slight
Car crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 22 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198452CRE0392
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 12 December 2018
5 m awayRef 2018521808381
Serious
Ford S-Max crash on the A4108 in Bristol, 8 May 2016
6 m awayRef 2016521603808
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 26 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025522600327
Slight
Car crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 4 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198752CR01259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2004520053490 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.