Serious C road crash in the Forest of Dean GL19 on 18 February 2005 at 01:28 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on a C road in the Forest of Dean at 01:28 on Friday 18 February 2005. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2005
- Friday, 01:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90492, longitude -2.30507, in the GL19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005530181073
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
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, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2005.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 10 March 2005
45 m awayRef 2005530181275
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 1 March 2004
228 m awayRef 2004530AI0810
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 23 November 1993
364 m awayRef 1993530BI2176
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 26 January 2003
370 m awayRef 2003530AI0378
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Forest of Dean, 25 October 1988
398 m awayRef 1988530BI0683
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the Forest of Dean, 15 June 2019
436 m awayRef 2019530848392
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 2005530181073 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 2005.