A45 crash in Coventry on 22 April 2012 at 16:05 involving a Toyota Carina
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2012
- Sunday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37994, longitude -1.51678, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wainbody, Coventry, CV3 6NE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220M005922
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- 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
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 2025.
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A45 in Coventry, 1 November 2025
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Honda Jazz crash on the A45 in Coventry, 21 November 2025
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Slight
MAN crash on the A45 in Coventry, 20 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200520M076302
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Fiat Doblo crash on the A45 in Coventry, 30 April 2018
11 m awayRef 2018200292280
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A45 in Coventry, 25 January 2017
13 m awayRef 2017200153494
Serious
Lexus IS200 crash on the A45 in Coventry, 27 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200320M501902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
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 201220M005922 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 2012.