A38 crash in Stroud on 21 July 2008 at 08:17 involving a Renault Kangoo van
A Renault Kangoo van, a van and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A38 in Stroud at 08:17 on Monday 21 July 2008. A 60-year-old male passenger in the van and the 43-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 2008
- Monday, 08:17
- Vehicles
- 3
- Renault Kangoo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71679, longitude -2.37893, in the GL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530195500
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A38 in Stroud, 11 December 2002
At the same spotRef 2002530AI4040
Serious
Suzuki GSXS crash on the A38 in Stroud, 24 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023531393469
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A38 in Stroud, 25 April 1997
20 m awayRef 1997530BI0745
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A38 in Stroud, 8 June 2019
38 m awayRef 2019530848300
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Stroud, 19 August 2012
46 m awayRef 2012530207129
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the A38 in Stroud, 9 December 1993
158 m awayRef 1993530BI2331
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 60, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 2008530195500 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 2008.