A4053 crash in Coventry on 19 November 2004 at 18:40 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series, a Ford Escort and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A4053 in Coventry at 18:40 on Friday 19 November 2004. The 35-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2004
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 3 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41153, longitude -1.50526, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420M501301
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4053
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4109
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 11 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200220M028001
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 28 November 1998
32 m awayRef 199820M232401
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B4544 in Coventry, 1 September 2015
50 m awayRef 201520M013455
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 16 January 2007
50 m awayRef 200720M009401
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 8 September 2015
50 m awayRef 201520M014265
Slight
Car crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 28 December 2002
50 m awayRef 200220M502501
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mercedes E Class)
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 200420M501301 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 2004.