Serious C road crash in Cotswold GL7 on 8 December 2014 at 11:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Cotswold at 11:50 on Monday 8 December 2014. A 70-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2014
- Monday, 11:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.67315, longitude -1.945, in the GL7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209217
- Council area
- Cotswold
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 1996.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on a C road in Cotswold, 14 November 1996
1 m awayRef 1996530AI1583
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Cotswold, 10 June 2003
1 m awayRef 2003530AI1892
Slight
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Cotswold, 13 August 1994
1 m awayRef 1994530AI1130
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Cotswold, 17 April 2011
1 m awayRef 2011530204085
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Cotswold, 9 June 2015
3 m awayRef 2015530209623
Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Cotswold, 24 February 2015
4 m awayRef 2015530209272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2014530209217 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 2014.