Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS10 on 22 December 2012 at 11:15 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 11:15 on Saturday 22 December 2012. A 52-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Volkswagen Transporter van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5061, longitude -2.61751, in the BS10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Henbury and Brentry, Bristol, BS10 7HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012521300127
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 20 October 2001
71 m awayRef 2001520142549
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 17 April 1998
72 m awayRef 1998520040878
Serious
Van crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 13 February 1979
85 m awayRef 197952CSM0154
Fatal
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 17 January 2006
89 m awayRef 2006520011274
Slight
Car crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 3 May 1986
89 m awayRef 198652CS00817
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A4018 in Bristol, 9 January 1997
91 m awayRef 1997520004251
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 52, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 2012521300127 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.