B4061 crash in South Gloucestershire on 20 January 2023 at 12:30 involving a Porsche 718
A Porsche 718 and a van were involved in a crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire at 12:30 on Friday 20 January 2023. A 51-year-old female passenger in the Porsche 718 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2023
- Friday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Porsche 718 and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60599, longitude -2.5264, in the BS35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, BS35 2JD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023522300099
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4061
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 19 December 2014
6 m awayRef 2014521409271
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 2 July 2000
19 m awayRef 2000520080152
Serious
Fiat Croma crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 13 September 1993
26 m awayRef 19935293E3405
Serious
Van crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 23 February 1990
26 m awayRef 199052DF02617
Serious
Lorry crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 20 March 1984
28 m awayRef 198452DFT0502
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the B4061 in South Gloucestershire, 14 December 2011
36 m awayRef 2011521200058
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 718
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 718)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023522300099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2023.