Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 16 December 2017 at 19:02 involving an Alfa Romeo Mito
An Alfa Romeo Mito, a Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 19:02 on Saturday 16 December 2017. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 3
- Alfa Romeo Mito and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45092, longitude -1.45579, in the CV2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200260678
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 31 October 1995
81 m awayRef 19952095M1723
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 November 2000
177 m awayRef 200020M134303
Serious
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 January 1998
207 m awayRef 199820M022201
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 1 December 2016
214 m awayRef 2016200137314
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 12 March 1982
233 m awayRef 19822000M0603
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 October 1981
233 m awayRef 19812000M2490
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Alfa Romeo Mito
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 2017200260678 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.