A45 crash in Rugby on 22 May 2013 at 22:50 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Sport
A Land Rover Range Rover Sport and an Iveco lorry were involved in a crash on the A45 in Rugby at 22:50 on Wednesday 22 May 2013. The 46-year-old male driver of the Iveco lorry was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2013
- Wednesday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover Sport and Iveco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3668, longitude -1.43478, in the CV8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ryton-on-Dunsmore. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunsmore, Rugby, CV8 3QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013233560113
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1994.
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A45 in Rugby, 16 December 1994
3 m awayRef 1994239402226
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A45 in Rugby, 4 October 1999
3 m awayRef 1999239901697
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in Rugby, 26 June 1998
9 m awayRef 1998239801079
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Rugby, 20 January 2013
10 m awayRef 2013233506313
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A45 in Rugby, 2 July 2006
11 m awayRef 2006230696110
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Rugby, 9 December 2003
13 m awayRef 2003230397594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 2 (Iveco)
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 2013233560113 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 2013.