A46 crash in Stroud on 12 August 2010 at 11:40 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A Daewoo Matiz and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A46 in Stroud at 11:40 on Thursday 12 August 2010. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Daewoo Matiz, the 20-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Matiz and a 15-year-old female passenger in the Daewoo Matiz were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2010
- Thursday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Matiz and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.69166, longitude -2.21958, in the GL6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nailsworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nailsworth, Stroud, GL6 0LU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530202070
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A46 in Stroud, 28 March 1997
At the same spotRef 1997530BI0613
Serious
Car crash on the A46 in Stroud, 1 March 1984
10 m awayRef 1984530CI0117
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A46 in Stroud, 6 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991530BI0190
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A46 in Stroud, 5 December 2006
36 m awayRef 2006530189197
Serious
Car crash on the A46 in Stroud, 21 June 1985
45 m awayRef 1985530CI0260
Slight
Car crash on the B4058 in Stroud, 28 April 2009
63 m awayRef 2009530198067
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Matiz)
- 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 2010530202070 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 2010.