Serious B4696 crash in Cotswold on 15 May 2019 at 14:33 involving an Audi A1
An Audi A1 and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on the B4696 in Cotswold at 14:33 on Wednesday 15 May 2019. The 75-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was seriously injured and the 24-year-old female driver of the Audi A1 and an 81-year-old male passenger in the Audi A3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 May 2019
- Wednesday, 14:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A1 and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6715, longitude -1.90021, in the GL7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Siddington & Cerney Rural, Cotswold, GL7 5FP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019530845715
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4696
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Authorised person
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 46 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4696 in Cotswold, 7 August 2004
46 m awayRef 2004530AI2834
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cotswold, 14 March 1979
106 m awayRef 1979530EI0116
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B4696 in Cotswold, 12 July 2025
112 m awayRef 2025531615008
Slight
Morris Ital crash on a C road in Cotswold, 1 August 1993
128 m awayRef 1993530AI1090
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the B4696 in Cotswold, 8 July 2025
138 m awayRef 2025531613266
Serious
Suzuki GSF 650 crash on the B4696 in Cotswold, 14 July 2011
150 m awayRef 2011530205318
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A1)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019530845715 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 2019.