C road crash in Cheltenham GL51 on 20 June 2010 at 14:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on a C road in Cheltenham at 14:00 on Sunday 20 June 2010. A 48-year-old female passenger and the 48-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2010
- Sunday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89266, longitude -2.1309, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Benhall, the Reddings & Fiddler's Green, Cheltenham, GL51 6SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530201831
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
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The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2012.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2010530201831 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2010.