Serious B4109 crash in Coventry on 13 October 1998 at 11:45 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the B4109 in Coventry at 11:45 on Tuesday 13 October 1998. The 23-year-old female driver of the Mercedes C Class was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Oct 1998
- Tuesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42321, longitude -1.49527, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199820M197801
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4109
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2005.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 21 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200520M011903
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 26 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018200350601
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 30 July 2023
4 m awayRef 2023201372391
Serious
Suzuki GSXS crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 4 July 2023
7 m awayRef 2023201345002
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 1 April 2009
10 m awayRef 200920M015303
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 29 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199920M237701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 199820M197801 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.