Serious B4085 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 7 July 2009 at 20:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B4085 in Stratford-on-Avon at 20:40 on Tuesday 7 July 2009. The 22-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 2009
- Tuesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.14611, longitude -1.86523, in the B50 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009230990716
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4085
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4085 in Stratford-on-Avon, 1 May 1986
73 m awayRef 1986238600744
Serious
Car crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 7 December 1979
85 m awayRef 1979220312014
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 8 July 1990
135 m awayRef 1990220307073
Slight
Ducati crash on the B4085 in Stratford-on-Avon, 24 July 2005
156 m awayRef 2005230591041
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4085 in Wychavon, 9 September 1979
255 m awayRef 1979220309011
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4085 in Stratford-on-Avon, 6 May 1979
376 m awayRef 1979230000620
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2009230990716 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2009.