Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 20 March 2008 at 13:50 involving a car
A car and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 13:50 on Thursday 20 March 2008. The male driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2008
- Thursday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40754, longitude -1.49692, 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, CV2 4FU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820M016901
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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 17 October 2005.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200520M076502
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A428 in Coventry, 25 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199920M101601
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 15 November 2011
10 m awayRef 201120M016381
Serious
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 11 December 2015
14 m awayRef 2015200044092
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A428 in Coventry, 23 June 2001
22 m awayRef 200120M105002
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 November 2005
22 m awayRef 200520M084502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 200820M016901 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.