B4078 crash in Tewkesbury on 26 March 2017 at 20:09 involving a Hyundai Santa Fe
A Hyundai Santa Fe crashed on the B4078 in Tewkesbury at 20:09 on Sunday 26 March 2017. The 71-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 2017
- Sunday, 20:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Santa Fe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.99416, longitude -1.96868, in the GL54 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017530185775
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4078
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 December 2002.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the B4078 in Tewkesbury, 17 December 2002
7 m awayRef 2002530AI4132
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4078 in Tewkesbury, 4 November 1996
27 m awayRef 1996530AI1539
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the B4078 in Tewkesbury, 18 August 2019
273 m awayRef 2019530869953
Fatal
Nissan Micra crash on the B4077 in Tewkesbury, 11 July 1991
289 m awayRef 1991530AI0935
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the B4077 in Tewkesbury, 12 June 2024
289 m awayRef 2024531455096
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4077 in Tewkesbury, 6 November 1998
296 m awayRef 1998530AI1726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Santa Fe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 71, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Santa Fe)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2017530185775 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2017.