A4151 crash in the Forest of Dean on 22 October 2015 at 11:10 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a Renault Master van were involved in a crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean at 11:10 on Thursday 22 October 2015. The 30-year-old male driver of the Renault Master van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and Renault Master
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81813, longitude -2.47874, in the GL14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015530209975
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4151
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 fatal crash on 6 February 2018.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Forest of Dean, 6 February 2018
6 m awayRef 2018530266934
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 13 July 2000
15 m awayRef 2000530AI2132
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 8 August 1991
17 m awayRef 1991530BI0722
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 9 April 1985
21 m awayRef 1985530BI0187
Slight
Car crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 30 January 1986
21 m awayRef 1986530BI0065
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A4151 in the Forest of Dean, 9 December 2006
54 m awayRef 2006530189227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,693 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,464 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Master)
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 2015530209975 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 2015.