A430 crash in Gloucester on 28 February 2012 at 10:40 involving a Renault Twingo
A Renault Twingo and a Peugeot 406 were involved in a crash on the A430 in Gloucester at 10:40 on Tuesday 28 February 2012. A 33-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 406 and the 24-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2012
- Tuesday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Twingo and Peugeot 406
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86651, longitude -2.24089, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingsholm and Wotton, Gloucester, GL1 2BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530206277
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 430
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 2008.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 18 April 2008
1 m awayRef 2008530194418
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 14 December 2011
1 m awayRef 2011530205537
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 9 November 2001
9 m awayRef 2001530AI3889
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Gloucester, 26 November 1984
13 m awayRef 1984530BI0807
Serious
Car crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 6 November 1988
14 m awayRef 1988530BI0741
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 29 March 1979
14 m awayRef 1979530WI0170
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Twingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,946 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 406)
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 2012530206277 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2012.