B3122 crash in Bristol on 27 September 2017 at 10:15 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon, a BMW 3 Series and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on the B3122 in Bristol at 10:15 on Wednesday 27 September 2017. The male driver of the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Leon and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43471, longitude -2.6012, in the BS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 3PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017521707247
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3122
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2021.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 23 November 2021
1 m awayRef 2021522201278
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 17 December 1999
8 m awayRef 1999520158658
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 29 April 1998
8 m awayRef 1998520047180
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 27 October 2012
8 m awayRef 2012521207069
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 4 September 2002
21 m awayRef 2002520116963
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B3122 in Bristol, 12 January 1994
22 m awayRef 19945294C0035
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
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
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
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 2017521707247 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2017.