M5 crash in Stroud on 18 December 2020 at 19:52 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Mercedes B Class were involved in a crash on the M5 in Stroud at 19:52 on Friday 18 December 2020. The 28-year-old male driver of the Mercedes B Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet road with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2020
- Friday, 19:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Mercedes B Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75316, longitude -2.33059, in the GL10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020531008694
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 5
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in Stroud, 29 December 1985
24 m awayRef 1985530CI0658
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M5 in Stroud, 1 May 1998
27 m awayRef 1998530BI0853
Slight
Nissan crash on the M5 in Stroud, 25 February 2007
35 m awayRef 2007530189821
Slight
Car crash on the M5 in Stroud, 20 July 1985
76 m awayRef 1985530CI0366
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M5 in Stroud, 27 June 2008
81 m awayRef 2008530195212
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M5 in Stroud, 31 March 2022
86 m awayRef 2022531161415
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
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
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes B Class
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,950 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes B Class)
- 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 2020531008694 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 2020.