A429 crash in Wiltshire on 17 February 2020 at 18:24 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van, a Volkswagen Golf and a Toyota Aygo were involved in a crash on the A429 in Wiltshire at 18:24 on Monday 17 February 2020. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2020
- Monday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit Custom and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5683, longitude -2.09905, in the SN16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020541699520
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 429
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 7 March 2012
4 m awayRef 2012542102112
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 8 November 2002
4 m awayRef 200254CY67002
Fatal
Car crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 24 March 2010
13 m awayRef 201054EY09910
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 2 May 2007
14 m awayRef 200754EY08407
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 24 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025541716417
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A429 in Wiltshire, 28 May 2014
17 m awayRef 2014544924514
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020541699520 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 2020.