A429 crash in Cotswold on 31 December 1994 at 07:55 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A429 in Cotswold at 07:55 on Saturday 31 December 1994. The 37-year-old male driver of the Toyota Corolla was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1994
- Saturday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95176, longitude -1.71389, in the GL56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994530AI1874
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 429
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 25 December 1979
63 m awayRef 1979530NI0882
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 29 January 1991
71 m awayRef 1991530AI0154
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 27 August 1992
73 m awayRef 1992530AI1251
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 18 June 2002
92 m awayRef 2002530AI2369
Fatal
Peugeot 306 crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 7 March 2008
104 m awayRef 2008530194125
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 14 April 1979
134 m awayRef 1979530NI0208
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,290 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
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 1994530AI1874 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.