A424 crash in Cotswold on 3 October 2010 at 10:25 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A424 in Cotswold at 10:25 on Sunday 3 October 2010. The 18-year-old male driver of the Renault Clio was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2010
- Sunday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95279, longitude -1.74692, 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
- 2010530202663
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 2013.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 31 July 2013
11 m awayRef 2013530207987
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 8 July 2002
14 m awayRef 2002530AI2381
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 7 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002530AI3187
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 12 August 2025
27 m awayRef 2025531627983
Slight
Van crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 14 March 2025
28 m awayRef 2025531565173
Slight
Bedford crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 9 October 1995
71 m awayRef 1995530AI1366
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 2010530202663 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 2010.