A4017 crash in Bristol on 19 April 2014 at 20:10 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A4017 in Bristol at 20:10 on Saturday 19 April 2014. The 47-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46475, longitude -2.51429, in the BS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds. It is one of the crashes that make up the St George Central, Bristol, BS15 1JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521402796
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4017
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A4017 in Bristol, 30 March 1985
4 m awayRef 198552CG00518
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4048 in Bristol, 5 March 1984
6 m awayRef 198452CGE0488
Slight
Car crash on the A4017 in Bristol, 28 June 1989
6 m awayRef 198952CR01079
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A4017 in Bristol, 12 April 2024
11 m awayRef 2024522401525
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4048 in Bristol, 11 June 1988
14 m awayRef 198852CG00969
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4048 in Bristol, 9 July 1994
14 m awayRef 19945294F6172
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2014521402796 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 2014.