Serious A5 crash in North Warwickshire on 29 May 2013 at 16:05 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire at 16:05 on Wednesday 29 May 2013. The 36-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 May 2013
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59932, longitude -1.6203, in the B78 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dordon, North Warwickshire, B78 1TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013232563213
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2013.
Slight
Nissan Primastar crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire, 17 April 2013
9 m awayRef 2013232546113
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire, 14 October 2016
12 m awayRef 2016230124981
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5 in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 3 August 2015
19 m awayRef 201523N026105
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire, 17 June 1998
27 m awayRef 1998239801012
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire, 6 July 2005
27 m awayRef 2005230596210
Fatal
Citroen Xsara crash on the A5 in North Warwickshire, 11 September 2004
46 m awayRef 2004230496853
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 2013232563213 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 2013.