Unclassified road crash in Wiltshire SP2 on 3 November 2018 at 01:45 involving a BMW 3 Series taxi
A BMW 3 Series taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wiltshire at 01:45 on Saturday 3 November 2018. A 29-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2018
- Saturday, 01:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.07988, longitude -1.82638, in the SP2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Salisbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Salisbury Fisherton & Bemerton Village, Wiltshire, SP2 9EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201854A415018
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 42 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 June 2007.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 28 June 2007
42 m awayRef 200754ES15707
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 5 February 1989
44 m awayRef 198954AD00329
Slight
Optare Solo crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 8 November 2003
52 m awayRef 200354AD67203
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 7 January 1996
59 m awayRef 199654AD00086
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 18 May 1990
59 m awayRef 199054AD01310
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 14 November 1997
59 m awayRef 199754AD06457
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201854A415018 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 2018.