A4 crash in Bath and North East Somerset on 3 July 2014 at 09:14 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Hiace van were involved in a crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset at 09:14 on Thursday 3 July 2014. The 44-year-old male driver of the Toyota Hiace van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2014
- Thursday, 09:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Toyota Hiace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40063, longitude -2.45334, in the BS31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Saltford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Saltford, Bath and North East Somerset, BS31 3BA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bath and North East Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014521404824
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 August 2018.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 31 August 2018
6 m awayRef 2018521806199
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 7 March 2011
12 m awayRef 2011521101319
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 17 May 1991
12 m awayRef 19915291N6271
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 23 March 2012
16 m awayRef 2012521202103
Slight
Lorry crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 22 July 1980
22 m awayRef 198052EKE0899
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4 in Bath and North East Somerset, 24 July 1994
23 m awayRef 19945294F2742
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Hiace
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,446 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Hiace)
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 2014521404824 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 2014.