C road crash in Stroud GL6 on 10 October 2008 at 19:30 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on a C road in Stroud at 19:30 on Friday 10 October 2008. The 44-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2008
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70987, longitude -2.19608, in the GL6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Minchinhampton.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530196570
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 27 July 1998.
Fatal
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Stroud, 27 July 1998
22 m awayRef 1998530BI1460
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 13 February 1982
78 m awayRef 1982530CI0056
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 9 October 1981
78 m awayRef 1981530EI0436
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 26 January 1988
78 m awayRef 1988530CI0051
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Stroud, 3 September 1993
91 m awayRef 1993530BI1599
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 5 April 1980
110 m awayRef 1980530EI0127
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
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 2008530196570 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.