A4600 crash in Coventry on 26 February 2019 at 17:42 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on the A4600 in Coventry at 17:42 on Tuesday 26 February 2019. The 60-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 46-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2019
- Tuesday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4251, longitude -1.44382, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Henley, Coventry, CV2 2FY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019200825414
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4600
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2016.
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 9 June 2016
2 m awayRef 2016200078398
Slight
Renault crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 8 December 1998
5 m awayRef 199820M243201
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 9 April 2011
5 m awayRef 201120M005091
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 27 February 2000
5 m awayRef 200020M047201
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 5 August 2000
5 m awayRef 200020M103303
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 11 May 2007
7 m awayRef 200720M029103
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019200825414 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 2019.