C road crash in Cotswold GL56 on 27 January 2006 at 15:52 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on a C road in Cotswold at 15:52 on Friday 27 January 2006. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2006
- Friday, 15:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.01971, longitude -1.76272, in the GL56 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006530185596
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 1997.
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on a C road in Cotswold, 29 August 1997
14 m awayRef 1997530AI1099
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 21 November 1986
36 m awayRef 1986530AI0812
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 8 June 1981
231 m awayRef 1981530NI0346
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Cotswold, 28 June 2001
495 m awayRef 2001530AI2163
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on a C road in Cotswold, 18 March 2004
495 m awayRef 2004530AI1009
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 8 December 2025
515 m awayRef 2025531680135
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2006530185596 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 2006.