B4455 crash in Rugby on 1 December 1994 at 07:00 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Citroen BX were involved in a crash on the B4455 in Rugby at 07:00 on Thursday 1 December 1994. The 33-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 1994
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47285, longitude -1.31893, in the CV23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994239402101
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4455
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 2002.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4455 in Rugby, 4 February 2002
14 m awayRef 2002230295268
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the B4455 in Rugby, 25 January 2005
14 m awayRef 2005230595138
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Rugby, 27 March 2009
14 m awayRef 2009230995406
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4455 in Rugby, 12 November 1993
14 m awayRef 1993239301895
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Rugby, 24 July 2009
14 m awayRef 2009230996059
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B4455 in Rugby, 24 July 1998
14 m awayRef 1998239801245
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 1994239402101 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 1994.