Serious A40 crash in Cotswold on 22 June 2025 at 01:54 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and an Audi Q5 were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cotswold at 01:54 on Sunday 22 June 2025. The 64-year-old male driver of the Audi Q5 was seriously injured and a 22-year-old female passenger in the Land Rover Freelander was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jun 2025
- Sunday, 01:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Audi Q5
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.81012, longitude -1.72336, in the OX18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531608268
- 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
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1990.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 8 October 1990
3 m awayRef 1990530AI1639
Fatal
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 21 May 2014
6 m awayRef 2014530208611
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 10 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023531340230
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 23 June 1979
39 m awayRef 1979530NI0372
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 3 October 1986
39 m awayRef 1986530AI0659
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 4 July 2007
65 m awayRef 2007530191452
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025531608268 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.