A40 crash in Cotswold on 1 December 2025 at 15:05 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Mini Countryman were involved in a crash on the A40 in Cotswold at 15:05 on Monday 1 December 2025. The 26-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 and the 67-year-old male driver of the Mini Countryman were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a flooded single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Monday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Mini Countryman
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87602, longitude -2.01266, in the GL54 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cotswold
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531677330
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Flood over 3cm deep
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, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 March 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 6 March 1988
30 m awayRef 1988530AI0147
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 23 October 1987
77 m awayRef 1987530AI0667
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 20 December 2025
118 m awayRef 2025531685840
Slight
Lorry crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 11 June 1985
126 m awayRef 1985530AI0334
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 17 June 1991
127 m awayRef 1991530AI0764
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A40 in Cotswold, 5 November 1998
164 m awayRef 1998530AI1716
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Mini Countryman
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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Countryman)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025531677330 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.