Serious A361 crash in Wiltshire on 31 December 2016 at 01:51 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 crashed on the A361 in Wiltshire at 01:51 on Saturday 31 December 2016. A 19-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 01:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35272, longitude -1.99081, in the SN10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Devizes. It is one of the crashes that make up the Devizes North, Wiltshire, SN10 1LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201654B703516
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 361
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 2022.
Slight
Volvo XC40 crash on the A342 in Wiltshire, 10 August 2022
16 m awayRef 2022548434622
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 29 November 1979
25 m awayRef 197954CZ05909
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 20 February 2018
40 m awayRef 2018541644118
Slight
Lorry crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 27 July 2023
40 m awayRef 2023547972523
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A361 in Wiltshire, 20 May 1998
44 m awayRef 199854CZ02778
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A342 in Wiltshire, 21 July 1990
44 m awayRef 199054CZ04490
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201654B703516 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 2016.