Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 23 January 2002 at 20:00 involving a Nissan Sunny
A Nissan Sunny and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 20:00 on Wednesday 23 January 2002. The 21-year-old male driver of the Nissan Sunny was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Sunny and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40686, longitude -1.50649, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 1LL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220M009201
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2018.
Slight
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Serious
Kawasaki KMX125 crash on the B4544 in Coventry, 23 June 2011
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4544 in Coventry, 1 June 2009
22 m awayRef 200920M032101
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 22 September 1998
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Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 November 1998
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Sunny)
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 200220M009201 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 2002.