Serious A4135 crash in Stroud on 4 December 2008 at 08:38 involving a Hyundai Amica
A Hyundai Amica and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A4135 in Stroud at 08:38 on Thursday 4 December 2008. The 61-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured and the 21-year-old female driver of the Hyundai Amica was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 2008
- Thursday, 08:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Amica and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71593, longitude -2.36619, in the GL11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530196970
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4135
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 April 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 20 April 1987
20 m awayRef 1987530CI0178
Serious
Alfa Romeo 33 crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 9 February 1996
73 m awayRef 1996530BI0201
Serious
Car crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 19 December 1982
80 m awayRef 1982530CI0633
Serious
Yamaha R6 crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 23 January 2002
82 m awayRef 2002530AI0157
Slight
Honda NH80MD crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 18 March 1996
95 m awayRef 1996530BI0417
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A4135 in Stroud, 21 July 2008
171 m awayRef 2008530195499
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Amica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
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
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Amica)
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 2008530196970 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.