Serious B4439 crash in Warwick on 24 October 1989 at 09:24 involving a car
A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on the B4439 in Warwick at 09:24 on Tuesday 24 October 1989. A 42-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was seriously injured and a 24-year-old male pedestrian hit by the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Oct 1989
- Tuesday, 09:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3124, longitude -1.68898, in the CV35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warwick
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989238902011
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4439
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1995.
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 1 December 1995
80 m awayRef 1995239502034
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 31 July 1979
100 m awayRef 1979230001040
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 5 September 1999
136 m awayRef 1999239901536
Slight
Car crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 26 September 1989
141 m awayRef 1989238901759
Serious
Car crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 10 November 1985
141 m awayRef 1985238501855
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 8 January 2019
168 m awayRef 2019230354902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 2 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 2 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 1989238902011 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 1989.