A38 crash in Gloucester on 11 December 2011 at 17:10 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto hit a pedestrian on the A38 in Gloucester at 17:10 on Sunday 11 December 2011. An 85-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87657, longitude -2.24053, in the GL2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 9DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011530205516
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2001.
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 5 May 2001
At the same spotRef 2001530AI1506
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 8 December 2000
14 m awayRef 2000530AI3894
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 1 February 1996
22 m awayRef 1996530BI0181
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 21 April 1999
50 m awayRef 1999530AI1566
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 17 December 2001
60 m awayRef 2001530AI4455
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A38 in Gloucester, 4 September 1993
60 m awayRef 1993530BI1587
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 2011530205516 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.