Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV5 on 19 December 2020 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 17:20 on Saturday 19 December 2020. The 49-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2020
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41642, longitude -1.57665, in the CV5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bablake, Coventry, CV5 9BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020201022104
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2019.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 14 May 2019
7 m awayRef 2019200870875
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199820M260601
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 8 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200920M062801
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 9 September 1997
12 m awayRef 19972097M1636
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 April 1999
41 m awayRef 199920M075101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 9 November 2025
48 m awayRef 2025201665825
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2020201022104 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 2020.