Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 24 September 2003 at 17:19 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 17:19 on Wednesday 24 September 2003. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was 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
- 24 Sep 2003
- Wednesday, 17:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4371, longitude -1.49291, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Foleshill, Coventry, CV6 5SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320M076603
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- A
- Second road number
- 444
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, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2017.
Slight
Car crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 9 March 2017
13 m awayRef 2017200167358
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 10 June 2021
17 m awayRef 2021201060462
Serious
Iveco crash on the A444 in Coventry, 30 July 2002
22 m awayRef 200220M059903
Slight
BMW M1 crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 3 November 2023
24 m awayRef 2023201450762
Serious
Volkswagen Eos crash on the B4113 in Coventry, 2 August 2020
28 m awayRef 2020200979839
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A444 in Coventry, 10 September 1999
32 m awayRef 199920M174501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 648 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200320M076603 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.