A40 crash in Cheltenham on 2 September 2018 at 13:03 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cheltenham at 13:03 on Sunday 2 September 2018. The 64-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 13:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88894, longitude -2.05442, in the GL52 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cheltenham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charlton Park, Cheltenham, GL53 7QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheltenham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018530342980
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2018.
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 16 January 2018
11 m awayRef 2018530283255
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 24 September 1994
16 m awayRef 1994530AI1335
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 9 December 1986
16 m awayRef 1986530AI0851
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 9 October 2002
16 m awayRef 2002530AI3673
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 14 October 1985
19 m awayRef 1985530AI0660
Serious
Lorry crash on the A40 in Cheltenham, 20 December 1988
19 m awayRef 1988530AI0824
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 64, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2018530342980 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.