Serious B4425 crash in Cotswold on 18 February 2016 at 09:10 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on the B4425 in Cotswold at 09:10 on Thursday 18 February 2016. A 69-year-old female passenger in the BMW 1 Series was seriously injured and the 37-year-old female driver of the Ford Transit van and the 70-year-old female driver of the BMW 1 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2016
- Thursday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.72558, longitude -1.9421, in the GL7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the The Beeches, Cotswold, GL7 1GN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016530046165
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4425
- 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
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A433 in Cotswold, 31 January 1985
9 m awayRef 1985530CI0037
Slight
Peugeot 107 crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 26 February 2021
23 m awayRef 2021531025044
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 17 July 1993
34 m awayRef 1993530AI1010
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A433 in Cotswold, 27 July 1983
133 m awayRef 1983530CI0334
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 18 June 2009
133 m awayRef 2009530198195
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4425 in Cotswold, 31 March 2007
137 m awayRef 2007530190359
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 1 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2016530046165 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 2016.