C road crash in Cheltenham GL51 on 25 November 2013 at 20:12 involving a BMW M3
A BMW M3 crashed on a C road in Cheltenham at 20:12 on Monday 25 November 2013. A 23-year-old male passenger and a 16-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2013
- Monday, 20:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW M3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.92567, longitude -2.08248, in the GL51 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013530208255
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 February 1987.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 26 February 1987
9 m awayRef 1987530AI0112
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 20 November 1996
45 m awayRef 1996530AI1622
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 1 June 1983
54 m awayRef 1983530AI0359
Slight
Fiat crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 20 November 1998
73 m awayRef 1998530AI1836
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tewkesbury, 3 November 1982
91 m awayRef 1982530AI0818
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 23 August 2023
103 m awayRef 2023531345604
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW M3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,246 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW M3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2013530208255 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2013.