A423 crash in Coventry on 11 February 2002 at 10:05 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A423 in Coventry at 10:05 on Monday 11 February 2002. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Feb 2002
- Monday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40063, longitude -1.49862, in the CV1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 2AR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220M017202
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 423
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, 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 7 August 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A423 in Coventry, 7 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199820M152401
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A423 in Coventry, 16 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200320M079802
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the A4114 in Coventry, 16 February 2010
At the same spotRef 201020M010811
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A4114 in Coventry, 24 September 2016
5 m awayRef 2016200113234
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A423 in Coventry, 25 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199820M067901
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A423 in Coventry, 28 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200220M110902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 200220M017202 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.