A345 crash in Wiltshire on 1 April 2024 at 07:56 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class, a Volvo V90 and a car were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 07:56 on Monday 1 April 2024. The 46-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class 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
- 1 Apr 2024
- Monday, 07:56
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes A Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33853, longitude -1.76505, in the SN9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Pewsey.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024543724524
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 2022.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 16 July 2022
4 m awayRef 2022547469922
Slight
Mitsubishi Mirage crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 3 October 2020
32 m awayRef 2020549958320
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 21 May 2001
34 m awayRef 200154AP25801
Slight
Volkswagen LT 28 crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 17 May 2000
34 m awayRef 200054AP27200
Serious
Car crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 5 December 1981
52 m awayRef 198154AP05981
Slight
Car crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 November 1989
52 m awayRef 198954AP01939
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo V90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2024543724524 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.