A46 crash in Cheltenham on 8 September 2021 at 15:39 involving a Hyundai Tucson
A Hyundai Tucson and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the A46 in Cheltenham at 15:39 on Wednesday 8 September 2021. The 66-year-old female driver of the Ford KA 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
- 8 Sep 2021
- Wednesday, 15:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai Tucson and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89547, longitude -2.07502, in the GL53 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
- 2021531085447
- 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
- 46
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 1992.
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 22 August 1992
4 m awayRef 1992530AI1267
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 5 February 2008
4 m awayRef 2008530193763
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 24 March 2025
5 m awayRef 2025531572101
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 11 August 2022
11 m awayRef 2022531208378
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 13 September 2013
11 m awayRef 2013530208160
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 14 April 1987
13 m awayRef 1987530AI0196
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Tucson
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
- 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 2021531085447 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 2021.