A426 crash in Rugby on 7 July 2015 at 08:47 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Four vehicles, including a Volkswagen Golf and a Peugeot 107, were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 08:47 on Tuesday 7 July 2015. A 5-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus 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
- 7 Jul 2015
- Tuesday, 08:47
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volkswagen Golf and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34195, longitude -1.28594, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunchurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunsmore, Rugby, CV22 6PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201523N035956
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2008.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A426 in Rugby, 5 August 2008
6 m awayRef 2008230896341
Serious
Honda crash on the A426 in Rugby, 3 May 2004
18 m awayRef 2004230495875
Slight
Honda CRV crash on the A426 in Rugby, 7 February 2004
20 m awayRef 2004230495256
Serious
Honda crash on the A426 in Rugby, 19 August 2021
21 m awayRef 2021231107122
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A426 in Rugby, 30 August 2014
23 m awayRef 201423N036219
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A426 in Rugby, 17 February 2011
25 m awayRef 2011231195194
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201523N035956 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.