B4061 crash in South Gloucestershire on 20 October 2018 at 02:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire at 02:35 on Saturday 20 October 2018. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Oct 2018
- Saturday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59283, longitude -2.5285, in the BS35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alveston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Severn Vale, South Gloucestershire, BS35 3LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521900282
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4061
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, lighting unknown
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 24 March 2018
3 m awayRef 2018521802906
Slight
Scania crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 17 March 1999
9 m awayRef 1999520048143
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 22 June 1995
13 m awayRef 19955295E2254
Serious
Scooter crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 23 January 1981
13 m awayRef 198152DFT0107
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 5 October 2000
13 m awayRef 2000520123170
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 21 November 1995
20 m awayRef 19955295E4457
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2018521900282 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2018.