A40 crash in Cotswold on 24 August 2008 at 11:55 involving a Peugeot 106
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87384, longitude -1.96453, in the GL54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530195405
- Council area
- Cotswold
- 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
- 50 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 12 November 1994
10 m awayRef 1994530AI1613
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 14 May 1993
14 m awayRef 1993530AI0665
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 28 December 1993
14 m awayRef 1993530AI1929
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 17 June 1995
14 m awayRef 1995530AI0756
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 30 November 1993
14 m awayRef 1993530AI1809
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 25 August 1983
45 m awayRef 1983530AI0613
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 106)
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 2008530195405 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.