A40 crash in Cheltenham on 22 December 2004 at 10:16 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cheltenham at 10:16 on Wednesday 22 December 2004. The 43-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra and the 24-year-old female driver of the Rover 400 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 10:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89493, longitude -2.10489, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Warden Hill, Cheltenham, GL51 6QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004530AI4748
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4633
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 15 May 1994
At the same spotRef 1994530AI0661
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 21 October 1993
At the same spotRef 1993530AI1556
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 5 July 2001
At the same spotRef 2001530AI2486
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 19 February 2010
At the same spotRef 2010530200687
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 8 October 2013
7 m awayRef 2013530208202
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the B4633 in Cheltenham, 25 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025531687949
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 400 Series)
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 2004530AI4748 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.