A48 crash in the Forest of Dean on 8 July 2012 at 18:25 involving a Peugeot 106
A Peugeot 106 hit a pedestrian on the A48 in the Forest of Dean at 18:25 on Sunday 8 July 2012. A 58-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2012
- Sunday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78066, longitude -2.45935, in the GL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207086
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 48
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1990.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 24 January 1990
17 m awayRef 1990530BI0034
Slight
Scania crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 5 September 2012
62 m awayRef 2012530207508
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 19 June 1990
103 m awayRef 1990530BI0358
Fatal
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 22 September 2012
128 m awayRef 2012530207269
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 30 September 2006
139 m awayRef 2006530188399
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 22 May 2011
175 m awayRef 2011530204915
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
- 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 2012530207086 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 2012.