Unclassified road crash in Cotswold GL53 on 18 February 2008 at 15:56 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A car and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold at 15:56 on Monday 18 February 2008. The 25-year-old male driver of the car, the 44-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier and a 21-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2008
- Monday, 15:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86034, longitude -2.06589, in the GL53 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530193948
- 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
- 40 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
- Dry
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%
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The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2021.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2008530193948 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 2008.