Serious B4226 crash in the Forest of Dean on 22 November 2012 at 00:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean at 00:30 on Thursday 22 November 2012. The 29-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79929, longitude -2.59185, in the GL16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Berry Hill, Forest of Dean, GL16 7BU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207490
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4226
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 August 1997.
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 6 August 1997
25 m awayRef 1997530BI1531
Serious
Car crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 16 September 2006
45 m awayRef 2006530188279
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 19 October 2005
46 m awayRef 2005530184255
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 1 December 2002
65 m awayRef 2002530AI4456
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 20 August 1996
65 m awayRef 1996530BI1551
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 20 July 1996
75 m awayRef 1996530BI1213
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2012530207490 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.