Serious A4053 crash in Coventry on 3 January 2008 at 22:05 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a car were involved in a crash on the A4053 in Coventry at 22:05 on Thursday 3 January 2008. The 29-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured and the 30-year-old male driver of the Mazda 323 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Jan 2008
- Thursday, 22:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41009, longitude -1.50395, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820M013601
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 4100
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 August 2014.
Serious
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 2 August 2014
10 m awayRef 201420M010224
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 45 crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 2 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200420M004101
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 16 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199820M015601
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 25 February 2025
13 m awayRef 2025201558338
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 5 August 2013
14 m awayRef 201320M011623
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 8 August 2014
14 m awayRef 201420M011704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,489 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 323)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200820M013601 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 2008.