Unclassified road crash in Cheltenham GL52 on 27 December 2018 at 17:20 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a Mercedes CLK Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham at 17:20 on Thursday 27 December 2018. The 62-year-old female driver of the Mercedes CLK Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Mercedes CLK Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.8985, longitude -2.067, in the GL52 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
- 2018530806345
- Council area
- Cheltenham
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 2017.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 22 June 2017
1 m awayRef 2017530196657
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 12 December 2023
2 m awayRef 2023531387128
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 24 June 1997
4 m awayRef 1997530AI0734
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 6 October 2006
4 m awayRef 2006530188208
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 21 April 2005
4 m awayRef 2005530181790
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cheltenham, 26 November 2000
6 m awayRef 2000530AI3727
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes CLK Class)
- 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 2018530806345 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.