B4101 crash in Coventry on 3 November 2015 at 21:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B4101 in Coventry at 21:30 on Tuesday 3 November 2015. The 21-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2015
- Tuesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40563, longitude -1.52108, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whoberley, Coventry, CV1 3HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015200032245
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4101
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2022.
Serious
Car crash on the B4101 in Coventry, 15 September 2022
5 m awayRef 2022201271337
Fatal
Renault Kangoo crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 30 November 2004
8 m awayRef 200420M080701
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 December 2007
22 m awayRef 200720M500101
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4101 in Coventry, 5 June 2025
27 m awayRef 2025201599375
Serious
Car crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 23 March 1994
39 m awayRef 19942094M0492
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4023 in Coventry, 19 February 1990
39 m awayRef 19902000M0354
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015200032245 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 2015.