Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 2 August 1998 at 20:11 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 20:11 on Sunday 2 August 1998. The 43-year-old male driver of the Nissan Primera was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 1998
- Sunday, 20:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Primera and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4112, longitude -1.48247, 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
- 199820M147901
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
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 199820M147901 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.