Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS16 on 25 March 2022 at 00:20 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 00:20 on Friday 25 March 2022. The 34-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2022
- Friday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48249, longitude -2.53093, in the BS16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frome Vale, Bristol, BS16 3SE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022522201599
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1991.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 8 October 1991
8 m awayRef 19915291C1622
Slight
Triumph Herald crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 22 March 1996
8 m awayRef 19965296F1352
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 16 May 1992
12 m awayRef 19925292F0696
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 22 March 1988
18 m awayRef 198852CG00491
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 17 October 2000
53 m awayRef 2000520131709
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 8 April 1992
78 m awayRef 19925292F0133
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
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 2022522201599 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 2022.