A424 crash in Cotswold on 28 July 2018 at 18:53 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A424 in Cotswold at 18:53 on Saturday 28 July 2018. The 51-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 25-year-old male driver of the Skoda Fabia were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 18:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88106, longitude -1.69071, in the OX7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018530328037
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 424
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 September 2007.
Slight
Honda CBR600RR crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 28 September 2007
36 m awayRef 2007530192365
Fatal
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 9 December 2018
61 m awayRef 2018530803839
Slight
Toyota Tercel crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 30 December 1993
128 m awayRef 1993530AI1939
Slight
Car crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 4 June 1986
202 m awayRef 1986530AI0353
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 11 July 1995
246 m awayRef 1995530AI0890
Serious
Van crash on the A424 in Cotswold, 24 June 1983
246 m awayRef 1983530AI0435
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
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 2018530328037 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 2018.