A426 crash in Rugby on 5 November 2015 at 07:48 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Jaguar X Type were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 07:48 on Thursday 5 November 2015. The 56-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 40-year-old male driver of the Jaguar X Type were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2015
- Thursday, 07:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Jaguar X Type
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31748, longitude -1.3154, in the CV23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015230033930
- 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
- 426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 November 1997.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A46 in Rugby, 25 November 1997
3 m awayRef 1997239702162
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Rugby, 23 May 1997
3 m awayRef 1997239700853
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A426 in Rugby, 25 April 2000
3 m awayRef 2000230000708
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A426 in Rugby, 24 May 2025
4 m awayRef 2025231595077
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A426 in Rugby, 24 September 2025
5 m awayRef 2025231648219
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A426 in Rugby, 22 May 2014
5 m awayRef 201423N025729
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Jaguar X Type)
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 2015230033930 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 2015.