C road crash in Cheltenham GL50 on 3 December 2004 at 19:00 involving a Proton Persona
A Proton Persona and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Cheltenham at 19:00 on Friday 3 December 2004. The 57-year-old male driver of the Proton Persona was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2004
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Proton Persona and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88739, longitude -2.09165, in the GL50 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI4398
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 9 November 1988
10 m awayRef 1988530AI0689
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 18 September 1985
10 m awayRef 1985530AI0571
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 10 July 1991
14 m awayRef 1991530AI0937
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 20 June 1984
14 m awayRef 1984530AI0425
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 7 October 1981
20 m awayRef 1981530NI0670
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 6 October 1994
20 m awayRef 1994530AI1396
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Proton Persona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Persona)
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 2004530AI4398 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2004.