Serious A420 crash in South Gloucestershire on 31 January 2010 at 15:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A420 in South Gloucestershire at 15:55 on Sunday 31 January 2010. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Jan 2010
- Sunday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45169, longitude -2.41343, in the BS30 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010521001083
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 420
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 November 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 19 November 1987
71 m awayRef 198752DC02055
Slight
Fiat 126 crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 2 May 1992
71 m awayRef 19925292F0446
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 7 November 2020
102 m awayRef 2020522101097
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 4 August 2004
108 m awayRef 2004520099821
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 30 December 1997
108 m awayRef 1997520001412
Serious
Van crash on the A420 in South Gloucestershire, 28 March 1987
117 m awayRef 198752DC00507
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2010521001083 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2010.