Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 16 July 2015 at 16:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 16:50 on Thursday 16 July 2015. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40287, longitude -1.5105, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520M011355
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4053
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 slight injury crash on 11 January 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 11 January 2011
10 m awayRef 201120M000991
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 27 July 2011
20 m awayRef 201120M010671
Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 19 October 2018
21 m awayRef 2018200350764
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 19 November 2022
24 m awayRef 2022201273836
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 25 June 1990
30 m awayRef 19902000M1205
Serious
Car crash on the A4053 in Coventry, 2 May 1987
30 m awayRef 19872000M0682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 201520M011355 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.