C road crash in Wiltshire BA12 on 24 December 2008 at 12:53 involving a Vauxhall Signum
A Vauxhall Signum and a Volkswagen Transporter were involved in a crash on a C road in Wiltshire at 12:53 on Wednesday 24 December 2008. All four casualties 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
- 24 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 12:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Signum and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15557, longitude -2.2645, in the BA12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200854ER53808
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 2001.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 26 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200154CR12101
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 8 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025546957325
Serious
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 4 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200454CR44004
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 27 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200454CR50004
Slight
Suzuki Alto crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 1 April 2014
21 m awayRef 2014543010214
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 28 November 1991
70 m awayRef 199154AW06371
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Signum
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,172 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,109 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Signum)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 32, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- 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 200854ER53808 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 2008.