B4008 crash in Gloucester on 9 April 2011 at 15:50 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B4008 in Gloucester at 15:50 on Saturday 9 April 2011. A 73-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series and a 16-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Punto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Apr 2011
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83379, longitude -2.27542, in the GL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Quedgeley and Hardwicke. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quedgeley Severn Vale, Gloucester, GL2 4NF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011530204658
- 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
- 4008
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4008
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the B4008 in Gloucester, 22 November 2014
5 m awayRef 2014530209114
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 75 crash on the B4008 in Gloucester, 11 November 1999
10 m awayRef 1999530AI4257
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4008 in Gloucester, 23 November 1995
10 m awayRef 1995530BI2157
Fatal
Ford Capri crash on the B4008 in Stroud, 1 May 1990
10 m awayRef 1990530BI0257
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 27 January 2006
10 m awayRef 2006530185578
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4008 in Gloucester, 14 May 2011
10 m awayRef 2011530204919
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 2011530204658 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 2011.