B4072 crash in Gloucester on 15 October 2010 at 19:09 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the B4072 in Gloucester at 19:09 on Friday 15 October 2010. A 24-year-old female passenger and the 47-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2010
- Friday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85758, longitude -2.25088, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Gloucester, GL1 1LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530202892
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4072
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2022.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 25 January 2022
1 m awayRef 2022531136463
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 9 July 1996
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Slight
Audi Q7 crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 21 April 2016
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Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 16 December 2020
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Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 16 September 1992
14 m awayRef 1992530BI1740
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 1 March 2004
14 m awayRef 2004530AI0808
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2010530202892 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.