A303 crash in Wiltshire on 16 January 2015 at 13:00 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Jaguar XF Series were involved in a crash on the A303 in Wiltshire at 13:00 on Friday 16 January 2015. The 41-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2015
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Jaguar XF Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16866, longitude -1.89302, in the SP3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Till Valley, Wiltshire, SP3 4TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015540525215
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 303
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3083
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 2 September 2009
6 m awayRef 200954EM32909
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 24 January 2014
11 m awayRef 2014540807014
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 16 March 2025
16 m awayRef 2025543240225
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 13 October 2019
16 m awayRef 201954A192719
Slight
Audi crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 2 March 2008
16 m awayRef 200854EM11508
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A303 in Wiltshire, 16 January 2011
16 m awayRef 201154EM01811
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar XF Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
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 2015540525215 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2015.