A435 crash in Tewkesbury on 26 July 2012 at 22:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury at 22:00 on Thursday 26 July 2012. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.95773, longitude -2.06713, in the GL52 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012530207174
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 April 2009.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 4 April 2009
5 m awayRef 2009530197280
Slight
Car crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 11 November 2000
5 m awayRef 2000530AI3485
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 14 October 2007
5 m awayRef 2007530192338
Serious
Triumph Spitfire crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 13 March 1997
5 m awayRef 1997530AI0303
Slight
Volkswagen Santana crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 25 March 2000
5 m awayRef 2000530AI0524
Serious
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A435 in Tewkesbury, 14 March 2025
8 m awayRef 2025531565699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2012530207174 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2012.