Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 22 December 1988 at 17:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 17:10 on Thursday 22 December 1988. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1988
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44395, longitude -1.51004, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000M2345
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 29 March 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000M0931
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 February 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000M0334
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 1 September 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000M2419
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 May 1990
At the same spotRef 19902000M0868
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 8 January 1981
At the same spotRef 19812000M0068
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 2 September 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000M1566
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 19882000M2345 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 1988.