A426 crash in Rugby on 23 April 2009 at 17:52 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Toyota Avensis were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 17:52 on Thursday 23 April 2009. The 40-year-old female driver of the Toyota Avensis was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2009
- Thursday, 17:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34423, longitude -1.28317, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunchurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunsmore, Rugby, CV22 6PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009230995523
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 1999.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A426 in Rugby, 3 June 1999
At the same spotRef 1999239900957
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A426 in Rugby, 5 January 1998
At the same spotRef 1998239800027
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A426 in Rugby, 1 November 2002
At the same spotRef 2002230297376
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the A426 in Rugby, 10 August 2024
2 m awayRef 2024231480429
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Rugby, 12 May 2020
5 m awayRef 2020230952665
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A426 in Rugby, 21 November 2012
6 m awayRef 2012233642612
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
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 2009230995523 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 2009.