Serious A46 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 25 October 2015 at 11:44 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon at 11:44 on Sunday 25 October 2015. The 72-year-old male driver of the Land Rover Discovery was seriously injured and the 43-year-old male driver of the Citroen C3 and a 62-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Discovery were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Oct 2015
- Sunday, 11:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Discovery and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.16087, longitude -1.88149, in the WR11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015230033573
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 46
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- B
- Second road number
- 439
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 September 2000.
Serious
MG MGF crash on the A46 in Warwick, 26 September 2000
7 m awayRef 2000230001634
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 9 May 2002
7 m awayRef 2002230290827
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 22 August 2015
7 m awayRef 2015230039388
Slight
HGV crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 May 2000
27 m awayRef 2000230000829
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 27 May 2014
31 m awayRef 201423S030575
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A46 in Stratford-on-Avon, 25 April 2013
33 m awayRef 2013233038713
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)
- 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 2015230033573 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2015.