C road crash in the Forest of Dean GL19 on 17 November 2015 at 22:18 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in the Forest of Dean at 22:18 on Tuesday 17 November 2015. The 17-year-old male driver, an 18-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89992, longitude -2.30804, in the GL19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015530210207
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1998.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Forest of Dean, 1 April 1998
53 m awayRef 1998530BI0689
Slight
Leyland Freighter crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 17 November 1999
142 m awayRef 1999530AI4523
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 28 April 1999
265 m awayRef 1999530AI1594
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the Forest of Dean, 15 June 2019
335 m awayRef 2019530848392
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 1 March 2004
371 m awayRef 2004530AI0810
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in the Forest of Dean, 10 March 2005
553 m awayRef 2005530181275
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2015530210207 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.