A4600 crash in Coventry on 7 July 2017 at 23:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A4600 in Coventry at 23:30 on Friday 7 July 2017. The 22-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class and a 19-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes C Class were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2017
- Friday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4113, longitude -1.47867, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Stoke, Coventry, CV2 4JT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200200415
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4600
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2019.
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 17 October 2019
At the same spotRef 2019200898177
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 30 April 2023
1 m awayRef 2023201306569
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 2 August 2005
2 m awayRef 200520M053802
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 14 October 2008
2 m awayRef 200820M057502
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 30 May 1998
11 m awayRef 199820M104901
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 March 2010
11 m awayRef 201020M700812
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017200200415 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 2017.