A429 crash in Cotswold on 9 December 2014 at 17:45 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a car were involved in a crash on the A429 in Cotswold at 17:45 on Tuesday 9 December 2014. A 20-year-old female passenger in the car and the 20-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70555, longitude -1.99204, in the GL7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cirencester.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014530209218
- 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
- 429
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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
- Flood over 3cm deep
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 2015.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 17 July 2015
2 m awayRef 2015530209692
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 11 January 2005
3 m awayRef 2005530180522
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 27 April 2007
3 m awayRef 2007530190662
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 22 September 1996
3 m awayRef 1996530AI1308
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 10 December 2002
3 m awayRef 2002530AI4540
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 14 May 2009
3 m awayRef 2009530197912
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2014530209218 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.