C road crash in Cotswold GL56 on 10 December 2003 at 15:08 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on a C road in Cotswold at 15:08 on Wednesday 10 December 2003. The 38-year-old male driver 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
- 10 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 15:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.94682, longitude -1.69662, in the GL56 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003530AI4253
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 366 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 1986.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 29 October 1986
366 m awayRef 1986530AI0724
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 27 October 1987
586 m awayRef 1987530AI0680
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 1 September 1981
734 m awayRef 1981530NI0561
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 12 December 1983
734 m awayRef 1983530AI0925
Fatal
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 15 August 1983
785 m awayRef 1983530AI0602
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 24 May 1981
785 m awayRef 1981530NI0304
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 2003530AI4253 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 2003.