A46 crash in Cheltenham on 5 November 2025 at 18:39 involving a Hyundai Getz
A bicycle and a Hyundai Getz were involved in a crash on the A46 in Cheltenham at 18:39 on Wednesday 5 November 2025. The 19-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 18:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Hyundai Getz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.89712, longitude -2.06922, in the GL52 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531666095
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 September 1988.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 8 September 1988
6 m awayRef 1988530AI0504
Slight
Car crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 22 December 2007
6 m awayRef 2007530193193
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 2 August 1995
6 m awayRef 1995530AI0994
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 16 March 1997
6 m awayRef 1997530AI0309
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A46 in Cheltenham, 6 October 1994
6 m awayRef 1994530AI1380
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Cheltenham, 10 December 1987
7 m awayRef 1987530AI0835
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Getz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,086 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 19, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025531666095 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 2025.