Unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS35 on 18 December 2025 at 23:43 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van, a Mini Cooper and a Mini One were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 23:43 on Thursday 18 December 2025. A 50-year-old male passenger in the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 23:43
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Vivaro and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59986, longitude -2.50119, in the BS35 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522600830
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 38
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2012.
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 9 November 2012
6 m awayRef 2012521207292
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 24 January 2006
11 m awayRef 2006520011380
Fatal
Car crash on the A38 in South Gloucestershire, 31 March 1986
20 m awayRef 198652DT00583
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A38 in South Gloucestershire, 24 November 1991
21 m awayRef 19915291N8241
Slight
Car crash on the A38 in South Gloucestershire, 28 December 1981
22 m awayRef 198152DFT2150
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A38 in South Gloucestershire, 30 July 1997
22 m awayRef 1997520065092
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 3: Mini One
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
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025522600830 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 2025.