Serious unclassified road crash in Gloucester GL1 on 6 November 2018 at 18:00 involving a Volvo S40
A Volvo S40 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Gloucester at 18:00 on Tuesday 6 November 2018. A 35-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2018
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8538, longitude -2.24327, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Moreland, Gloucester, GL1 5HT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018530342562
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2012.
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 18 December 2012
1 m awayRef 2012530207533
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 30 December 1997
3 m awayRef 1997530BI2561
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 17 November 2004
3 m awayRef 2004530AI4140
Slight
Leyland crash on a C road in Gloucester, 5 October 1992
7 m awayRef 1992530BI1856
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 24 December 1997
9 m awayRef 1997530BI2544
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B4072 in Gloucester, 28 February 2002
9 m awayRef 2002530AI0647
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018530342562 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2018.