A403 crash in Bristol on 12 December 2018 at 16:58 involving a Peugeot Bipper van
A Peugeot Bipper van and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta were involved in a crash on the A403 in Bristol at 16:58 on Wednesday 12 December 2018. The 55-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Bipper van and the 66-year-old male driver of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 16:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Bipper and Alfa Romeo Giulietta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54077, longitude -2.67404, in the BS10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018521902501
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 403
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2008.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1400 crash on the A403 in Bristol, 3 August 2008
4 m awayRef 2008520808404
Slight
Car crash on the A403 in Bristol, 16 June 1986
4 m awayRef 198652CS01101
Slight
Mazda Xedos crash on the A403 in Bristol, 19 June 2000
17 m awayRef 2000520074985
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A403 in Bristol, 20 April 1997
26 m awayRef 1997520038121
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A403 in Bristol, 12 September 2011
39 m awayRef 2011521105768
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on the A403 in Bristol, 8 September 2004
48 m awayRef 2004520121622
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Alfa Romeo Giulietta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Bipper)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alfa Romeo Giulietta)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018521902501 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 2018.