B4040 crash in Wiltshire on 10 August 2011 at 18:40 involving a Porsche Cayman
A Porsche Cayman and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire at 18:40 on Wednesday 10 August 2011. The 35-year-old male driver of the Porsche Cayman was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2011
- Wednesday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche Cayman and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58824, longitude -2.1778, in the SN16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011546948511
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4040
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1992.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 13 February 1992
36 m awayRef 199254CY00792
Slight
Car crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 18 January 1980
36 m awayRef 198054CY00070
Slight
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 17 May 2005
54 m awayRef 200554CY29605
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 3 July 2018
56 m awayRef 2018546091918
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 13 February 2008
58 m awayRef 200854EY07408
Slight
Car crash on the B4040 in Wiltshire, 23 May 1985
73 m awayRef 198554CY04975
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche Cayman
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,387 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Cayman)
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 2011546948511 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2011.