A46 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 25 June 1997 at 14:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Vauxhall Rascal van were involved in a crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon at 14:00 on Wednesday 25 June 1997. The 35-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Rascal van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Vauxhall Rascal
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.19865, longitude -1.75606, in the CV37 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997239701074
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1995.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 2 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995239502039
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 2 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997239701131
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 21 January 1999
10 m awayRef 1999239900160
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 9 March 1997
10 m awayRef 1997239700401
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 1 June 1997
10 m awayRef 1997239700920
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 1 June 2012
13 m awayRef 2012233055712
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Rascal
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Rascal)
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 1997239701074 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1997.