Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 12 February 2014 at 08:06 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A motorcycle and a Mercedes ML Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 08:06 on Wednesday 12 February 2014. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2014
- Wednesday, 08:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45147, longitude -1.51026, in the CV6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Exhall, Nuneaton and Bedworth, CV6 6AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420M002344
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 December 2005.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 15 December 2005
At the same spotRef 2005230597305
Slight
Mazda 121 crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 28 December 2004
At the same spotRef 2004230497808
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 8 March 2007
At the same spotRef 2007230795418
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 22 November 2010
At the same spotRef 2010231096600
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 20 September 2006
At the same spotRef 2006230696612
Serious
Vauxhall Frontera crash on a C road in Nuneaton and Bedworth, 24 September 2004
At the same spotRef 2004230496955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201420M002344 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 2014.