A444 crash in Coventry on 18 February 1998 at 17:55 involving a Mercedes van
A Mercedes van and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A444 in Coventry at 17:55 on Wednesday 18 February 1998. The 27-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44234, longitude -1.48991, in the CV6 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
- 199820M041201
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 May 2006.
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 18 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200620M027903
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A444 in Coventry, 23 March 2001
At the same spotRef 200120M075103
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 7 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200720M028603
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A444 in Coventry, 31 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199820M261601
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A444 in Coventry, 7 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199820M111601
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 2 November 2020
4 m awayRef 2020201010590
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Micra)
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 199820M041201 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.