Unclassified road crash in Coventry on 31 December 1986 at 12:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 12:15 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. The 66-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1986
- Wednesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19862000M3978
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, 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 19862000M3978 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.