A4032 crash in Bristol on 5 December 2012 at 16:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on the A4032 in Bristol at 16:00 on Wednesday 5 December 2012. The 27-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Leon and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46051, longitude -2.58178, in the BS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lawrence Hill, Bristol, BS5 0UU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012521207998
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4032
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2002.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A4032 in Bristol, 30 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002520146714
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4032 in Bristol, 24 October 2003
14 m awayRef 2003520144100
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4032 in Bristol, 1 November 2002
14 m awayRef 2002520147869
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4032 in Bristol, 4 March 2012
14 m awayRef 2012521201320
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4032 in Bristol, 7 June 1985
14 m awayRef 198552AT00794
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the B4050 in Bristol, 19 February 1991
14 m awayRef 19915291A0204
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
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 2012521207998 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2012.