Serious B4098 crash in Coventry on 23 December 1986 at 23:10 involving a car

A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the B4098 in Coventry at 23:10 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. The 19-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 23:10
Vehicles: 2; Car and motor scooter
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000M3982
Council area: Coventry
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4098
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 60 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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
43 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)

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 19862000M3982 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.