A4 crash in Bristol on 14 May 2014 at 19:30 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2014
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42738, longitude -2.53018, in the BS31 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brislington West, Bristol, BS31 2AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521404209
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 October 2025.
Slight
Yamaha XJR crash on the A4 in Bristol, 1 October 2025
2 m awayRef 2025522600200
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 18 August 1985
8 m awayRef 198552BR01097
Serious
Bus crash on the A4 in Bristol, 9 July 2015
14 m awayRef 2015521505382
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Bristol, 14 March 1988
14 m awayRef 198852BR00369
Slight
Van crash on the A4 in Bristol, 16 November 1987
14 m awayRef 198752BR01537
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset, 6 May 1989
14 m awayRef 198952EK00614
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 170 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2014521404209 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.