Fatal unclassified road crash in Stroud GL4 on 16 December 2014 at 18:00 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Stroud at 18:00 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80166, longitude -2.24162, in the GL4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209219
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 June 2004.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Stroud, 9 June 2004
47 m awayRef 2004530AI2022
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Stroud, 5 December 1996
55 m awayRef 1996530BI2154
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Stroud, 10 November 2020
56 m awayRef 2020531000591
Serious
Datsun Sunny crash on a C road in Stroud, 5 July 1996
107 m awayRef 1996530BI1195
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Gloucester, 28 March 1996
142 m awayRef 1996530BI0635
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Stroud, 25 October 2014
274 m awayRef 2014530209210
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- 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 2014530209219 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.