A48 crash in the Forest of Dean on 3 January 2016 at 21:22 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A48 in the Forest of Dean at 21:22 on Sunday 3 January 2016. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jan 2016
- Sunday, 21:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77608, longitude -2.47003, in the GL15 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
- 2016530042803
- 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
- 48
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 July 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 13 July 1992
15 m awayRef 1992530BI1331
Slight
Porsche crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 2 November 2007
15 m awayRef 2007530193055
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 7 March 1987
33 m awayRef 1987530BI0104
Serious
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 14 July 1986
33 m awayRef 1986530BI0443
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 3 December 1991
63 m awayRef 1991530BI5477
Slight
Car crash on the A48 in the Forest of Dean, 8 November 1988
77 m awayRef 1988530BI0738
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 2016530042803 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 2016.