Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS8 on 20 December 2012 at 20:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bristol at 20:20 on Thursday 20 December 2012. A 37-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45545, longitude -2.62172, in the BS8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012521300022
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2011.
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Mazda RX7 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 5 June 1999
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Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 24 June 2005
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 25 October 1995
36 m awayRef 19955295D1938
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 25 October 1992
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 5 November 1993
36 m awayRef 19935293D6736
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2012521300022 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.