Serious B4213 crash in Tewkesbury on 31 August 2008 at 08:30 involving a Ford Focus
A car and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury at 08:30 on Sunday 31 August 2008. The 54-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2008
- Sunday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95864, longitude -2.24751, in the GL19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008530195942
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4213
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 February 2019.
Serious
Mercedes ML Class crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 22 February 2019
71 m awayRef 2019530818308
Serious
Car crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 28 November 1980
199 m awayRef 1980530NI0843
Slight
Van crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 29 August 1985
199 m awayRef 1985530AI0541
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 22 October 1998
251 m awayRef 1998530AI1646
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 17 January 1999
255 m awayRef 1999530AI0171
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4213 in Tewkesbury, 21 September 1982
322 m awayRef 1982530AI0706
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 2008530195942 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2008.