C road crash in Cotswold GL7 on 26 August 2015 at 16:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Cotswold at 16:00 on Wednesday 26 August 2015. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 2015
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.71716, longitude -1.85231, in the GL7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015530209757
- 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
- 60 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 November 2020.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 24 November 2020
11 m awayRef 2020531003740
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 21 July 1979
108 m awayRef 1979530EI0320
Slight
MAN crash on a C road in Cotswold, 10 December 1995
111 m awayRef 1995530AI1660
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 25 July 1985
131 m awayRef 1985530CI0338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 5 December 1985
131 m awayRef 1985530CI0611
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cotswold, 31 October 2015
256 m awayRef 2015530209958
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 2015530209757 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 2015.