Serious C road crash in Stroud GL6 on 9 November 2010 at 13:23 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf, a Skoda Octavia and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Stroud at 13:23 on Tuesday 9 November 2010. A 43-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf and the 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 2010
- Tuesday, 13:23
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Golf and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79236, longitude -2.2234, in the GL6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Stroud
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530203062
- Council area
- Stroud
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 135 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 1990.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 26 October 1990
135 m awayRef 1990530BI5360
Serious
Talbot Alpine crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 10 February 1990
146 m awayRef 1990530BI5047
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 4 July 1993
149 m awayRef 1993530BI1176
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 2 January 2007
150 m awayRef 2007530189361
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 12 July 1995
163 m awayRef 1995530BI1785
Slight
Car crash on the A4173 in Stroud, 29 December 1982
166 m awayRef 1982530CI0658
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2010530203062 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stroud road accident statistics for 2010.