A345 crash in Wiltshire on 19 June 2012 at 11:29 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 11:29 on Tuesday 19 June 2012. A 32-year-old male pedestrian hit by the DAF Trucks lorry was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 11:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18318, longitude -1.78307, in the SP4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Amesbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012545400112
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2017.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 5 December 2017
14 m awayRef 201754B341517
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 12 February 2023
22 m awayRef 2023541591123
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 12 September 2021
22 m awayRef 2021548902221
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 February 1990
41 m awayRef 199054AM00180
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 3 July 2012
50 m awayRef 2012545867412
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 14 March 2012
50 m awayRef 2012542336712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- 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
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 32, hit by vehicle 1 (DAF Trucks)
- 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 2012545400112 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2012.