A40 crash in Tewkesbury on 9 November 2025 at 17:41 involving a Mitsubishi Outlander
A Mitsubishi Outlander, a BMW 4 Series and a Peugeot 207 were involved in a crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury at 17:41 on Sunday 9 November 2025. The 77-year-old male driver of the BMW 4 Series, the 40-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 207 and a 40-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 207 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2025
- Sunday, 17:41
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mitsubishi Outlander and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.86878, longitude -2.32144, in the GL2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tewkesbury
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531665856
- Council area
- Tewkesbury
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 January 2002.
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A40 in the Forest of Dean, 3 January 2002
5 m awayRef 2002530AI0001
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Tewkesbury, 18 April 2006
5 m awayRef 2006530186384
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A40 in the Forest of Dean, 9 September 2019
8 m awayRef 2019530876911
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A40 in the Forest of Dean, 4 July 2018
9 m awayRef 2018530309081
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A40 in the Forest of Dean, 24 February 2015
10 m awayRef 2015530209281
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A40 in the Forest of Dean, 23 January 1997
15 m awayRef 1997530BI0200
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mitsubishi Outlander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 207)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Peugeot 207)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025531665856 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tewkesbury road accident statistics for 2025.