A431 crash in South Gloucestershire on 26 April 2024 at 08:15 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan hit a pedestrian on the A431 in South Gloucestershire at 08:15 on Friday 26 April 2024. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Apr 2024
- Friday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44813, longitude -2.51361, 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
- 2024522402761
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 4 March 2014
2 m awayRef 2014521402970
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 16 January 2017
2 m awayRef 2017521701175
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 25 May 2021
4 m awayRef 2021522103905
Serious
Lorry crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 8 February 1989
4 m awayRef 198952DK00202
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 2 February 2012
4 m awayRef 2012521200812
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A431 in South Gloucestershire, 15 September 1980
4 m awayRef 198052DSK1544
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2024522402761 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.