A429 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 24 December 2012 at 17:40 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon at 17:40 on Monday 24 December 2012. The 80-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1916, longitude -1.60202, in the CV35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wellesbourne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wellesbourne East & Rural, Stratford-on-Avon, CV35 9RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stratford-on-Avon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012233138212
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 429
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon, 28 July 2012
2 m awayRef 2012233078912
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Stratford-on-Avon, 31 May 1983
5 m awayRef 1983238300761
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon, 26 October 2006
7 m awayRef 2006230691479
Serious
Honda crash on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon, 11 July 2011
33 m awayRef 2011231190715
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 April 2000
45 m awayRef 2000230000647
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A429 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 November 1991
65 m awayRef 1991239102003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, 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 2012233138212 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2012.