Serious A426 crash in Rugby on 29 September 2016 at 01:08 involving an Iveco lorry
A car and an Iveco lorry were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 01:08 on Thursday 29 September 2016. The 30-year-old female driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Sep 2016
- Thursday, 01:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Iveco
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36252, longitude -1.26765, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rokeby and Overslade, Rugby, CV22 6DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016230116598
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2024.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A426 in Rugby, 30 July 2024
3 m awayRef 2024231476497
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Rugby, 8 January 2016
3 m awayRef 2016230040303
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A426 in Rugby, 6 February 2016
4 m awayRef 2016230051787
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A426 in Rugby, 18 April 2011
6 m awayRef 2011231195493
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A426 in Rugby, 13 August 1999
9 m awayRef 1999239901408
Slight
Car crash on the A426 in Rugby, 8 October 2000
9 m awayRef 2000230001731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Iveco
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 10,308 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least 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 2016230116598 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 2016.