A40 crash in Tewkesbury on 1 August 1994 at 09:35 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A40 in Tewkesbury at 09:35 on Monday 1 August 1994. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1994
- Monday, 09:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.885, longitude -2.17212, in the GL3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994530BI2003
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Dislodged vehicle load in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 1989.
Serious
Vehicle crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 25 October 1989
10 m awayRef 1989530BI0853
Slight
Bedford crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 3 May 1994
10 m awayRef 1994530BI0797
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 11 November 2005
20 m awayRef 2005530184366
Slight
ERF crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 13 October 1993
22 m awayRef 1993530BI1859
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 25 September 2025
56 m awayRef 2025531682371
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 26 September 2020
57 m awayRef 2020530986107
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 1994530BI2003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 1994.