A4600 crash in Coventry on 21 June 2008 at 12:00 involving a Toyota Yaris
A car, a Toyota Yaris and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A4600 in Coventry at 12:00 on Saturday 21 June 2008. The 63-year-old male driver of the car, the 57-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris and the 73-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 2008
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Yaris and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41461, longitude -1.46817, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Stoke, Coventry, CV2 4JT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820M034702
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4600
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 29 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200520M025602
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 10 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200420M074302
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 9 April 2007
At the same spotRef 200720M022102
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 21 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200020M092202
Slight
Reliant Rialto crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 30 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200120M124102
Slight
Hyundai Atoz crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 18 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200820M057802
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Micra)
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 200820M034702 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.