Serious A426 crash in Rugby on 4 December 1992 at 17:48 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Ford Escort van were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 17:48 on Friday 4 December 1992. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort van was seriously injured and the 39-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 1992
- Friday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39475, longitude -1.24915, in the CV23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992239202056
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 426
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 1992.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A426 in Rugby, 1 February 1992
At the same spotRef 1992239200155
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A426 in Rugby, 8 November 1996
At the same spotRef 1996239601977
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A426 in Rugby, 20 April 1997
At the same spotRef 1997239700630
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A426 in Rugby, 7 December 1992
At the same spotRef 1992239202068
Serious
Renault 18 crash on the A426 in Rugby, 15 November 1992
At the same spotRef 1992239201903
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A426 in Rugby, 25 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995239501183
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 1992239202056 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1992.