A417 crash in Gloucester on 30 November 2012 at 16:50 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A417 in Gloucester at 16:50 on Friday 30 November 2012. A 29-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus and the 48-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2012
- Friday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87265, longitude -2.26305, in the GL1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Highnam with Haw Bridge, Tewkesbury, GL2 8BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207347
- 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
- 417
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 7 June 2007
2 m awayRef 2007530191133
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 11 June 2007
9 m awayRef 2007530191132
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A417 in Tewkesbury, 8 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990530BI0401
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 26 January 2007
29 m awayRef 2007530190201
Slight
Harley-Davidson FLS crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 22 September 2012
34 m awayRef 2012530207240
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 23 March 2018
56 m awayRef 2018530293830
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 2012530207347 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.