C road crash in North Warwickshire B78 on 29 September 2008 at 07:53 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Honda Civic and a Citroen C2 were involved in a crash on a C road in North Warwickshire at 07:53 on Monday 29 September 2008. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and the 20-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2008
- Monday, 07:53
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57276, longitude -1.67063, in the B78 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingsbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hurley and Wood End, North Warwickshire, B78 2EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008230896701
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 2002.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 27 July 2002
At the same spotRef 2002230296602
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 1 November 2001
At the same spotRef 2001230197538
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 23 February 1998
At the same spotRef 1998239800322
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 18 December 2015
1 m awayRef 2015230041886
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 5 October 2022
6 m awayRef 2022231237969
Slight
Rover Metro crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 5 July 2005
10 m awayRef 2005230596204
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Civic)
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 2008230896701 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 2008.