B4634 crash in Tewkesbury on 18 May 2013 at 22:12 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B4634 in Tewkesbury at 22:12 on Saturday 18 May 2013. A 10-year-old male passenger in the Rover 600 Series, the 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 41-year-old female driver of the Rover 600 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2013
- Saturday, 22:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91677, longitude -2.11109, in the GL51 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Springbank, Cheltenham, GL51 0AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013530207856
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4634
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2012.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4634 in Tewkesbury, 7 June 2012
2 m awayRef 2012530206828
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 7 June 2000
3 m awayRef 2000530AI1582
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4634 in Cheltenham, 29 November 1997
3 m awayRef 1997530AI1768
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B4634 in Tewkesbury, 12 October 2007
3 m awayRef 2007530192380
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the B4634 in Tewkesbury, 5 November 2021
4 m awayRef 2021531106288
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 23 June 2018
8 m awayRef 2018530323721
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 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 2013530207856 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 2013.