A428 crash in Coventry on 28 February 2003 at 12:24 involving an MCW bus
An MCW bus and a Rover 400 Series were involved in a crash on the A428 in Coventry at 12:24 on Friday 28 February 2003. A 33-year-old female passenger in the MCW bus and a 2-year-old female passenger in the MCW bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2003
- Friday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- MCW and Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40276, longitude -1.45185, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Binley & Willenhall, Coventry, CV3 2FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320M020102
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 428
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 2007.
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A428 in Coventry, 10 July 2007
At the same spotRef 200720M041702
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the A428 in Coventry, 5 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201420M013224
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A428 in Coventry, 2 March 2025
2 m awayRef 2025201560116
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A428 in Coventry, 27 April 2023
6 m awayRef 2023201315930
Slight
Kawasaki ZR1200 crash on the A428 in Coventry, 30 November 2002
14 m awayRef 200220M110802
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A428 in Coventry, 12 June 2006
22 m awayRef 200620M036302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MCW
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,045 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 33, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (MCW)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated passenger
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 200320M020102 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 2003.