A345 crash in Wiltshire on 12 January 2024 at 18:29 involving a Lexus UX 250
A car and a Lexus UX 250 were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 18:29 on Friday 12 January 2024. The 25-year-old male driver of the Lexus UX 250 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2024
- Friday, 18:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Lexus UX 250
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3237, longitude -1.79178, in the SN9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024540443724
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2007.
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 19 December 2007
4 m awayRef 200754EC45607
Slight
Honda crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 14 January 2014
11 m awayRef 2014540422314
Slight
Lorry crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 30 June 1983
11 m awayRef 198354AP02763
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 30 May 2008
18 m awayRef 200854EC23708
Slight
Lexus IS220 crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 29 April 2016
19 m awayRef 2016543791016
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 31 August 2016
38 m awayRef 2016547872116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Lexus UX 250
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Lexus UX 250)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2024540443724 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2024.