Serious unclassified road crash in Stroud GL13 on 14 December 2023 at 16:50 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Stroud at 16:50 on Thursday 14 December 2023. The 81-year-old male driver of the Audi A4, a 78-year-old female passenger in the Audi A4 and the 20-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 2023
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6707, longitude -2.43797, in the GL13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023531388868
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in Stroud, 24 September 1982
30 m awayRef 1982530CI0488
Serious
Skoda Yeti crash on the A38 in Stroud, 3 January 2019
44 m awayRef 2019530806820
Serious
Citroen C1 crash on the A38 in Stroud, 18 December 2021
71 m awayRef 2021531124564
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Stroud, 29 December 1979
72 m awayRef 1979530EI0642
Serious
Car crash on the A38 in Stroud, 15 March 1981
72 m awayRef 1981530EI0091
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A38 in Stroud, 5 May 1993
126 m awayRef 1993530BI0805
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 78, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2023531388868 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 2023.