Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS16 on 19 October 2005 at 00:10 involving a Ford Transit van
A car and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 00:10 on Wednesday 19 October 2005. A 19-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2005
- Wednesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47321, longitude -2.53975, in the BS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eastville, Bristol, BS5 6RP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005520136956
- 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2004.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 2 October 2004
30 m awayRef 2004520129984
Slight
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 19 November 1992
32 m awayRef 19925292F3420
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 2 July 1998
41 m awayRef 1998520074781
Slight
Alfa Romeo 146 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 22 June 2006
58 m awayRef 2006520074055
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 8 April 1995
63 m awayRef 19955295F0434
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 18 August 1986
100 m awayRef 198652CG01475
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2005520136956 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 2005.