C road crash in Gloucester GL4 on 24 December 2010 at 21:10 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Gloucester at 21:10 on Friday 24 December 2010. The 54-year-old male driver of the Kia Ceed was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2010
- Friday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Ceed and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84365, longitude -2.19695, in the GL4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5UF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530203560
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- C
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
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1991.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Gloucester, 14 December 1991
10 m awayRef 1991530BI5473
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on a C road in Gloucester, 14 April 2001
20 m awayRef 2001530AI1204
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gloucester, 26 May 2000
20 m awayRef 2000530AI1780
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Gloucester, 4 May 1996
20 m awayRef 1996530BI0749
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 2 October 1991
22 m awayRef 1991530BI0884
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Gloucester, 26 May 2005
22 m awayRef 2005530182340
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Ceed)
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 2010530203560 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.