Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV3 on 1 August 2015 at 20:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 20:00 on Saturday 1 August 2015. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda GLR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2015
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39902, longitude -1.47336, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lower Stoke, Coventry, CV3 1DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520M012215
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2001.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200120M611702
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 June 2004
At the same spotRef 200420M049902
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 22 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200020M124802
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 19 September 1998
30 m awayRef 199820M179701
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 23 September 1997
36 m awayRef 19972097M1741
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 31 March 1989
36 m awayRef 19892000M0581
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda GLR 125)
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 201520M012215 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.