M32 crash in Bristol on 14 May 2025 at 17:55 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the M32 in Bristol at 17:55 on Wednesday 14 May 2025. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and the 25-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2025
- Wednesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49075, longitude -2.54576, in the BS16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frome Vale, Bristol, BS16 1EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bristol
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522500773
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 32
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the M32 in Bristol, 11 July 2012
9 m awayRef 2012521204784
Slight
Car crash on the M32 in South Gloucestershire, 30 March 1988
9 m awayRef 198852DF00594
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the M32 in Bristol, 12 October 2000
9 m awayRef 2000520128961
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the M32 in Bristol, 15 May 2017
16 m awayRef 2017521704476
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M32 in Bristol, 12 July 2025
16 m awayRef 2025522501723
Slight
Kia Picanto crash on the M32 in Bristol, 29 July 2016
16 m awayRef 2016521605972
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025522500773 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2025.