A430 crash in Gloucester on 31 January 2014 at 17:15 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a car were involved in a crash on the A430 in Gloucester at 17:15 on Friday 31 January 2014. The 42-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2014
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86252, longitude -2.25743, in the GL2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Gloucester, GL2 5GQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530208597
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 430
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2023.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 17 December 2023
3 m awayRef 2023531394166
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 3 August 2009
11 m awayRef 2009530199175
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 10 August 2024
13 m awayRef 2024531478311
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on a C road in Gloucester, 9 September 2008
13 m awayRef 2008530196096
Serious
Suzuki DR Z400 crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 31 January 2012
19 m awayRef 2012530206327
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A430 in Gloucester, 15 May 2014
21 m awayRef 2014530208678
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, 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 2014530208597 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2014.