M6 crash in Rugby on 26 August 1999 at 00:50 involving a Renault lorry
A Renault lorry and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the M6 in Rugby at 00:50 on Thursday 26 August 1999. The 31-year-old female driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1999
- Thursday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43722, longitude -1.40185, in the CV7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999239901482
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 2013.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the M6 in Rugby, 4 December 2013
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Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the M6 in Rugby, 12 April 2021
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Serious
MAN crash on the M6 in Rugby, 31 July 2014
13 m awayRef 201423M066117
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the M6 in Rugby, 28 August 2016
23 m awayRef 2016230102831
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the M6 in Rugby, 3 August 2008
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Slight
Car crash on the M6 in Rugby, 25 December 1985
41 m awayRef 1985238501925
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 1999239901482 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1999.