Serious A4170 crash in Coventry on 5 November 2000 at 01:00 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a Peugeot 306 and a Peugeot 309 were involved in a crash on the A4170 in Coventry at 01:00 on Sunday 5 November 2000. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Nov 2000
- Sunday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41914, longitude -1.5187, 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
- 200020M121001
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4170
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 22 May 2003.
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A4170 in Coventry, 22 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200320M039901
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B4098 in Coventry, 10 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200720M051201
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the B4098 in Coventry, 29 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201020M003090
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B4098 in Coventry, 8 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200820M063001
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4170 in Coventry, 24 June 2003
At the same spotRef 200320M049001
Serious
Car crash on the B4098 in Coventry, 21 June 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200197977
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,988 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200020M121001 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 2000.