A4053 crash in Coventry on 19 December 2006 at 19:27 involving a Jaguar X Type
A Jaguar X Type and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A4053 in Coventry at 19:27 on Tuesday 19 December 2006. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Jaguar X Type were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet slip road with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2006
- Tuesday, 19:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jaguar X Type and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40827, longitude -1.5197, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whoberley, Coventry, CV1 3HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620M079901
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4053
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4053
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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 24 August 2006.
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 24 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200620M053001
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 28 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200120M076201
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 16 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200920M066601
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 13 November 2019
12 m awayRef 2019200914906
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 4 March 2000
14 m awayRef 200020M050601
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 January 2001
20 m awayRef 200120M058201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jaguar X Type)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 200620M079901 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 2006.