A431 crash in South Gloucestershire on 18 July 2024 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A431 in South Gloucestershire at 13:00 on Thursday 18 July 2024. A 69-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jul 2024
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44929, longitude -2.51751, in the BS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hanham, South Gloucestershire, BS15 3FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024522402297
- 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
- A
- First road number
- 431
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2005.
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 27 December 2005
5 m awayRef 2005520171913
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 14 October 1996
8 m awayRef 19965296F4510
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 21 December 2010
8 m awayRef 2010521100086
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 23 November 2001
16 m awayRef 2001520161195
Slight
Car crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 25 July 1987
22 m awayRef 198752DK01266
Serious
Car crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 7 November 1985
22 m awayRef 198552DK01986
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024522402297 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 2024.