B4101 crash in Coventry on 5 February 2007 at 00:45 involving a Metrocab Metrocab
A Metrocab Metrocab and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the B4101 in Coventry at 00:45 on Monday 5 February 2007. The 43-year-old male driver of the Audi A4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2007
- Monday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Metrocab Metrocab and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4083, longitude -1.52705, 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
- 200720M011101
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4101
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 24 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200320M010602
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 22 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200420M028201
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 24 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200420M020201
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 9 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199920M011601
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 7 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200120M054501
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4101 in Coventry, 19 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022201190669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Metrocab Metrocab
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A4)
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 200720M011101 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 2007.