A40 crash in Cotswold on 11 April 2013 at 20:20 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Porsche Boxster were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cotswold at 20:20 on Thursday 11 April 2013. The 39-year-old male driver of the Porsche Boxster and the 69-year-old female driver of the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Apr 2013
- Thursday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Porsche Boxster
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86398, longitude -1.95849, in the GL54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013530207812
- 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
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 436
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 16 January 2016
1 m awayRef 2016530042507
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 15 February 2012
1 m awayRef 2012530206301
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 26 July 2018
2 m awayRef 2018530314188
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 17 August 2015
3 m awayRef 2015530209738
Serious
Scania crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 14 February 2023
4 m awayRef 2023531279314
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 12 March 2014
4 m awayRef 2014530208608
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Porsche Boxster
Car
- 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Porsche Boxster)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
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 2013530207812 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 2013.