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A444 crash in Coventry on 22 January 1998 at 17:15 involving a Citroen BX

A Citroen BX and a car were involved in a crash on the A444 in Coventry at 17:15 on Thursday 22 January 1998. The 20-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Jan 1998
Thursday, 17:15
Vehicles
2
Citroen BX and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3788, longitude -1.51591, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.

Map of where the crash happened in Coventry

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199820M020701
Council area
Coventry
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
444
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2001.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Citroen BX

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years
    Engine capacity
    1,360 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    9 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Female, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 199820M020701 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 1998.