B4215 crash in the Forest of Dean on 6 April 2004 at 12:50 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord, a car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean at 12:50 on Tuesday 6 April 2004. The 74-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2004
- Tuesday, 12:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda Accord and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91022, longitude -2.34189, in the GL18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI0622
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4215
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2016.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 2 March 2016
20 m awayRef 2016530050677
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 25 August 2003
28 m awayRef 2003530AI2886
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 23 August 2024
42 m awayRef 2024531483075
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 1 May 2003
78 m awayRef 2003530AI1420
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 9 September 1986
82 m awayRef 1986530BI0581
Slight
Car crash on the B4215 in the Forest of Dean, 21 September 1985
82 m awayRef 1985530BI0608
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Escort)
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 2004530AI0622 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 2004.