A4600 crash in Coventry on 15 March 2012 at 08:52 involving a Toyota Carina
A Toyota Carina and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4600 in Coventry at 08:52 on Thursday 15 March 2012. The 52-year-old male driver of the Toyota Carina and the 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Mar 2012
- Thursday, 08:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Carina and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41905, longitude -1.45562, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wyken, Coventry, CV2 5AA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220M007042
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2015.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 16 May 2015
At the same spotRef 201520M007615
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 27 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200220M067803
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 21 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201320M014483
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 23 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201320M014623
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 15 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200320M006103
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 8 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200120M109002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Carina)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201220M007042 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.