Serious A417 crash in Cotswold on 4 December 2010 at 19:18 involving a Jaguar XK Series
A Jaguar XK Series and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A417 in Cotswold at 19:18 on Saturday 4 December 2010. The 45-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 2010
- Saturday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar XK Series and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.82239, longitude -2.08601, in the GL4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010530203337
- 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
- 417
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, lighting unknown
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 12 October 1994
20 m awayRef 1994530AI1417
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 17 September 1993
22 m awayRef 1993530AI1365
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 16 April 2004
51 m awayRef 2004530AI1287
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 9 February 1997
51 m awayRef 1997530AI0156
Slight
Porsche Macan crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 12 September 2025
63 m awayRef 2025531641080
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A417 in Cotswold, 16 August 2010
63 m awayRef 2010530202158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar XK Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
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 2010530203337 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.