Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 2 May 1997 at 15:30 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a Peugeot 205 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 15:30 on Friday 2 May 1997. The 18-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 205 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 1997
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40508, longitude -1.4605, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19972097M0799
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 April 1985
At the same spotRef 19852000M1200
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 1 March 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000M0379
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 January 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000M0076
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 11 November 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097M2097
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 August 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097M1568
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 August 1981
At the same spotRef 19812000M2007
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 205)
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 19972097M0799 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 1997.