Unclassified road crash in Cheltenham GL50 on 23 March 2018 at 13:15 involving a Peugeot 208
A Peugeot 208 and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham at 13:15 on Friday 23 March 2018. The 81-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 and the 22-year-old male driver of the Mercedes A Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2018
- Friday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 208 and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89436, longitude -2.08413, in the GL50 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the College, Cheltenham, GL50 1NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018530296650
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2017.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 28 July 2017
2 m awayRef 2017530205682
Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 25 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016530046495
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 22 December 2004
3 m awayRef 2004530AI4753
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 8 November 1996
3 m awayRef 1996530AI1543
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 15 April 1996
3 m awayRef 1996530AI0483
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 17 September 2011
7 m awayRef 2011530205632
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 208)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018530296650 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheltenham road accident statistics for 2018.