Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 1 December 2016 at 09:00 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on an unclassified road in Coventry at 09:00 on Thursday 1 December 2016. The 21-year-old female driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44972, longitude -1.45329, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200137314
- 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
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 January 1998.
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 January 1998
8 m awayRef 199820M022201
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 November 2000
37 m awayRef 200020M134303
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 18 May 2005
52 m awayRef 200520M033103
Serious
Honda NSR125 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 18 November 1999
61 m awayRef 199920M226401
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 28 December 1996
87 m awayRef 19962096M8132
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 10 July 1993
87 m awayRef 19932093M1247
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016200137314 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.