A4 crash in Bristol on 19 March 2013 at 18:30 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper and a Honda CBF125M motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Bristol at 18:30 on Tuesday 19 March 2013. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2013
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mini Cooper and Honda CBF125M
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43048, longitude -2.54371, in the BS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brislington West, Bristol, BS4 5BN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013521301939
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4 in Bristol, 25 April 1996
At the same spotRef 19965296C1752
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A4 in Bristol, 1 April 1995
At the same spotRef 19955295C0453
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 13 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198452BRO0221
Slight
Yamaha XT 600 crash on the A4 in Bristol, 19 August 2004
At the same spotRef 2004520106569
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4 in Bristol, 3 April 1996
At the same spotRef 19965296C1522
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 9 March 1999
10 m awayRef 1999520029564
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
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 2013521301939 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2013.