Serious A40 crash in Cheltenham on 2 February 1983 at 07:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A40 in Cheltenham at 07:30 on Wednesday 2 February 1983. The 38-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Feb 1983
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8932, longitude -2.07624, in the GL53 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983530AI0076
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 22 June 1980
At the same spotRef 1980530NI0431
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 2 June 1980
At the same spotRef 1980530NI0358
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 1 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979530NI0457
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 16 January 1979
At the same spotRef 1979530NI0029
Slight
Fiat crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 5 December 2011
At the same spotRef 2011530205902
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 27 March 1981
At the same spotRef 1981530NI0190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 38, 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 1983530AI0076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 1983.