A436 crash in Cotswold on 3 December 2018 at 18:37 involving a Skoda Superb
A Skoda Superb and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A436 in Cotswold at 18:37 on Monday 3 December 2018. The 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2018
- Monday, 18:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Superb and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8884, longitude -1.79706, in the GL54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018530804203
- 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
- 436
- 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
- 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, 138 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 November 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 16 November 1985
138 m awayRef 1985530AI0759
Slight
Van crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 26 January 1983
177 m awayRef 1983530AI0091
Slight
Car crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 15 January 1986
185 m awayRef 1986530AI0022
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 2 June 1980
318 m awayRef 1980530NI0364
Serious
Car crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 3 September 1986
398 m awayRef 1986530AI0579
Slight
Isuzu crash on the A436 in Cotswold, 16 September 2004
496 m awayRef 2004530AI3331
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Superb
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018530804203 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.