Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV5 on 14 August 2012 at 16:20 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 16:20 on Tuesday 14 August 2012. The 47-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2012
- Tuesday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42275, longitude -1.56895, in the CV5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bablake, Coventry, CV5 9BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220M011442
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 5 June 2002.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200220M042101
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 January 2000
14 m awayRef 200020M019201
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 9 August 2004
22 m awayRef 200420M052401
Slight
Austin Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 June 1997
22 m awayRef 19972097M1207
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Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 October 2000
22 m awayRef 200020M118901
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 September 2001
22 m awayRef 200120M111701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Accord)
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 201220M011442 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.