A424 crash in Cotswold on 15 July 2009 at 15:40 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo, a Seat Ibiza and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A424 in Cotswold at 15:40 on Wednesday 15 July 2009. The 40-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jul 2009
- Wednesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Smart Fortwo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96053, longitude -1.74979, in the GL56 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009530198689
- 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
- 424
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2001.
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 4 July 2001
10 m awayRef 2001530AI2234
Slight
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 20 July 1980
51 m awayRef 1980530NI0475
Slight
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 5 May 1979
51 m awayRef 1979530NI0286
Serious
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 8 June 1984
51 m awayRef 1984530AI0405
Slight
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 8 July 1981
51 m awayRef 1981530NI0421
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 10 July 1981
103 m awayRef 1981530NI0432
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2009530198689 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 2009.