Serious unclassified road crash in Warwick CV8 on 1 January 1980 at 06:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Warwick at 06:50 on Tuesday 1 January 1980. The 31-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 1980
- Tuesday, 06:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.33814, longitude -1.58166, in the CV8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kenilworth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980238000020
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 27 December 1991
36 m awayRef 1991239102181
Slight
Nissan Navara crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 30 June 2025
41 m awayRef 2025231611119
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 16 June 1997
50 m awayRef 1997239701009
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 1 August 1996
86 m awayRef 1996239601297
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 23 May 1986
100 m awayRef 1986238600739
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 29 November 1993
120 m awayRef 1993239302024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1980238000020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1980.