A40 crash in Tewkesbury on 14 December 1994 at 17:25 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A bus or coach and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury at 17:25 on Wednesday 14 December 1994. The 42-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1994
- Wednesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87238, longitude -2.19836, in the GL2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994530BI2393
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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 2 July 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 2 July 2004
At the same spotRef 2004530AI2344
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 11 November 1998
10 m awayRef 1998530BI2266
Slight
Scania crash on the A417 in Gloucester, 13 January 2011
22 m awayRef 2011530203596
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 6 April 2001
41 m awayRef 2001530AI1087
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 14 December 2004
41 m awayRef 2004530AI4600
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 26 May 1980
50 m awayRef 1980530WI0368
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 1994530BI2393 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.