Serious unclassified road crash in Cotswold GL7 on 18 June 2017 at 18:13 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cotswold at 18:13 on Sunday 18 June 2017. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2017
- Sunday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70975, longitude -1.95068, in the GL7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cirencester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watermoor, Cotswold, GL7 1PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017530193408
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 July 1988.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 17 July 1988
177 m awayRef 1988530CI0364
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 21 October 2005
198 m awayRef 2005530184765
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 27 May 1996
199 m awayRef 1996530AI0705
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A419 in Cotswold, 16 September 1996
200 m awayRef 1996530AI1290
Slight
Honda crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 28 August 1998
203 m awayRef 1998530AI1282
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A429 in Cotswold, 6 February 2000
203 m awayRef 2000530AI1175
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017530193408 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 2017.