B4226 crash in the Forest of Dean on 20 May 2014 at 15:30 involving a Mercedes S Class taxi
A Mercedes S Class taxi hit a pedestrian on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean at 15:30 on Tuesday 20 May 2014. A 34-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2014
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes S Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8136, longitude -2.5018, in the GL14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ruspidge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cinderford East, Forest of Dean, GL14 3FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209197
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4226
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2012.
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 3 March 2012
4 m awayRef 2012530206328
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 10 January 1998
4 m awayRef 1998530BI0027
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 16 March 1995
4 m awayRef 1995530BI0441
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 24 January 2017
5 m awayRef 2017530174631
Slight
Honda crash on the B4226 in the Forest of Dean, 22 June 1990
6 m awayRef 1990530BI0359
Slight
Kia Sedona crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 17 November 2019
7 m awayRef 2019530907709
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes S Class
Taxi or private hire 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
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes S Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
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 2014530209197 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 2014.