Serious B4081 crash in Cotswold on 15 March 2025 at 09:45 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van crashed on the B4081 in Cotswold at 09:45 on Saturday 15 March 2025. The 26-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 29-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Mar 2025
- Saturday, 09:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06986, longitude -1.77602, in the GL55 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531565503
- Council area
- Cotswold
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4081
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 28 March 1989.
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 28 March 1989
At the same spotRef 1989530AI0201
Slight
Car crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 19 December 1987
112 m awayRef 1987530AI0846
Slight
Audi TT crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 15 April 2020
226 m awayRef 2020530955941
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 14 March 1982
427 m awayRef 1982530AI0166
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 28 May 2005
449 m awayRef 2005530182360
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4081 in Cotswold, 15 August 1998
449 m awayRef 1998530AI1216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vivaro)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025531565503 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 2025.