Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV3 on 1 August 2013 at 00:20 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 00:20 on Thursday 1 August 2013. The 27-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38012, longitude -1.51677, 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
- 201320M011503
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 June 1984.
Serious
Car crash on the A444 in Coventry, 3 June 1984
10 m awayRef 19842000M1485
Slight
MAN crash on the A45 in Coventry, 20 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200520M076302
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A444 in Coventry, 22 May 1994
10 m awayRef 19942094M0865
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on the A444 in Coventry, 5 October 1993
10 m awayRef 19932093M1785
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A45 in Coventry, 12 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200520M027902
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in Coventry, 13 August 1999
14 m awayRef 199920M158901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,386 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 201320M011503 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 2013.