Unclassified road crash in Coventry on 30 December 1986 at 23:40 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 23:40 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 30 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 23:40
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000M3975
Council area: Coventry
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
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: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
25 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 19862000M3975 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 1986.