Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 9 March 2016 at 13:15 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 13:15 on Wednesday 9 March 2016. The 43-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Zafira, a 39-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Zafira and a 50-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2016
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43523, longitude -1.47718, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longford, Coventry, CV2 1JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200054426
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 5 August 1998
9 m awayRef 199820M150901
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 3 July 2002
9 m awayRef 200220M050203
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 3 July 2025
12 m awayRef 2025201610843
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 21 April 2000
14 m awayRef 200020M075203
Serious
Car crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 11 March 2004
14 m awayRef 200420M022803
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B4109 in Coventry, 20 June 2013
14 m awayRef 201320M008513
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, 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 2016200054426 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 2016.