A40 crash in Cotswold on 25 January 2012 at 08:45 involving an Audi A4
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 2012
- Wednesday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Honda CBR600RR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83787, longitude -1.83579, in the GL54 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Northleach, Cotswold, GL54 3RL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530206018
- 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
- 40
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 429
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 18 April 1992
2 m awayRef 1992530AI0521
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 14 November 2000
2 m awayRef 2000530AI3543
Slight
Leyland DAF FT 95 crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 9 November 1998
2 m awayRef 1998530AI1735
Serious
Honda crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 11 April 2005
2 m awayRef 2005530181689
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 16 October 2007
2 m awayRef 2007530193297
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 26 January 2014
3 m awayRef 2014530208455
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR600RR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR600RR)
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 2012530206018 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 2012.