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Serious B4081 crash in Cotswold on 1 March 1981 at 14:35 involving a car

A car crashed on the B4081 in Cotswold at 14:35 on Sunday 1 March 1981. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Mar 1981
Sunday, 14:35
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07524, longitude -1.77088, in the GL55 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981530NI0152
Council area
Cotswold
Police force
Gloucestershire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
4081
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Flood over 3cm deep

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 June 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1981530NI0152 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cotswold road accident statistics for 1981.