A40 crash in Gloucester on 15 September 2013 at 17:15 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A40 in Gloucester at 17:15 on Sunday 15 September 2013. A 32-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Passat, a 34-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Passat and the 31-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 2013
- Sunday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87877, longitude -2.19935, in the GL3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longlevens, Gloucester, GL2 0XH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gloucester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013530208124
- Council area
- Gloucester
- 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
- Roundabout
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 40
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2005.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 11 June 2005
6 m awayRef 2005530182533
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 25 January 2005
6 m awayRef 2005530180744
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 11 May 2008
6 m awayRef 2008530194821
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 29 December 2007
6 m awayRef 2007530193179
Slight
Seat Altea crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 11 May 2008
6 m awayRef 2008530194687
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A40 in Gloucester, 24 February 2002
8 m awayRef 2002530AI0661
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 2013530208124 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2013.