Unclassified road crash in Cotswold GL7 on 14 December 2004 at 11:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Honda SH50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold at 11:15 on Tuesday 14 December 2004. The 49-year-old male rider of the Honda SH50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2004
- Tuesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Honda SH50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71542, longitude -1.95886, in the GL7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cirencester. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Cotswold, GL7 1EF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI4601
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 April 1982.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 10 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982530CI0141
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 4 February 1994
32 m awayRef 1994530AI0170
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 18 October 2009
58 m awayRef 2009530199612
Slight
Suzuki GSX 1300 crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 24 August 2025
59 m awayRef 2025531668472
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 22 March 1986
72 m awayRef 1986530CI0120
Slight
Car crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 3 November 1988
72 m awayRef 1988530AI4032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Honda SH50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda SH50)
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 2004530AI4601 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 2004.