A345 crash in Wiltshire on 26 February 2006 at 10:04 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and an MCC Smart were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 10:04 on Sunday 26 February 2006. The 51-year-old male driver of the MCC Smart and a 50-year-old male passenger in the MCC Smart were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2006
- Sunday, 10:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and MCC Smart
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38079, longitude -1.76345, in the SN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200654AP10006
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2018.
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 2 August 2018
4 m awayRef 2018547233318
Serious
Harley-Davidson FLS crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 May 2016
5 m awayRef 2016544014516
Serious
Yamaha DT 125 RE crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 21 September 2013
8 m awayRef 2013549011213
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 October 2022
21 m awayRef 202254A535322
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 9 July 2025
25 m awayRef 2025541625338
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 September 2003
28 m awayRef 200354AP50403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 19,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: MCC Smart
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 698 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (MCC Smart)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (MCC Smart)
- 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 200654AP10006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2006.