C road crash in Coventry on 30 December 1979 at 14:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Coventry at 14:15 on Sunday 30 December 1979. A 58-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 55-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1979
- Sunday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197920LUODO20
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197920LUODO20 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Coventry road accident statistics for 1979.