A38 crash in Gloucester on 24 May 2010 at 10:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A38 in Gloucester at 10:45 on Monday 24 May 2010. The 47-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2010
- Monday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85413, longitude -2.224, in the GL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coney Hill, Gloucester, GL4 6PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530201550
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2016.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 12 June 2016
6 m awayRef 2016530154343
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 27 May 2016
8 m awayRef 2016530073526
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 6 March 2023
8 m awayRef 2023531284112
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 12 December 2010
10 m awayRef 2010530203244
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 22 May 2008
10 m awayRef 2008530194850
Serious
Van crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 21 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982530BI0025
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in 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 2010530201550 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2010.