Serious M5 crash in Stroud on 27 November 2014 at 21:03 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A car and a DAF Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on the M5 in Stroud at 21:03 on Thursday 27 November 2014. The 51-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 2014
- Thursday, 21:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and DAF Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6954, longitude -2.39423, in the GL11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wotton-under-Edge, Stroud, GL13 9HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209188
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 2002.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the M5 in Stroud, 26 August 2002
3 m awayRef 2002530AI3098
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on the M5 in Stroud, 24 August 1990
7 m awayRef 1990530BI5248
Slight
Lorry crash on the M5 in Stroud, 4 November 1989
58 m awayRef 1989530BI4415
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M5 in Stroud, 17 August 1995
79 m awayRef 1995530BI1504
Slight
MAN crash on the M5 in Stroud, 4 November 2002
92 m awayRef 2002530AI3898
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M5 in Stroud, 2 July 2014
102 m awayRef 2014530208824
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,902 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2014530209188 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 2014.