Fatal B4425 crash in Cotswold on 4 September 1994 at 03:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B4425 in Cotswold at 03:00 on Sunday 4 September 1994. A 17-year-old female passenger was killed and the 21-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 4 Sep 1994
- Sunday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.75922, longitude -1.82986, in the GL7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994530AI1225
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4425
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2019.
Slight
Mercedes SLK Class crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 2 March 2019
6 m awayRef 2019530820213
Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 19 June 2009
10 m awayRef 2009530199251
Slight
Car crash on the A433 in Cotswold, 15 December 1986
171 m awayRef 1986530CI0689
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 26 April 2024
196 m awayRef 2024531436166
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 27 June 1990
233 m awayRef 1990530AI1027
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 9 June 1992
242 m awayRef 1992530AI0788
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
FatalFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1994530AI1225 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 1994.