Unclassified road crash in Cheltenham GL51 on 28 December 2012 at 03:00 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cheltenham at 03:00 on Friday 28 December 2012. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2012
- Friday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.90294, longitude -2.12482, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mark's, Cheltenham, GL51 7DP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207442
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1994.
Slight
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 11 March 1994
3 m awayRef 1994530AI0338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 22 March 1981
10 m awayRef 1981530NI0174
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 15 January 1983
25 m awayRef 1983530AI0035
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 6 November 1987
31 m awayRef 1987530AI0706
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 24 April 1999
52 m awayRef 1999530AI1555
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 16 March 1990
73 m awayRef 1990530AI0398
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012530207442 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2012.