Unclassified road crash in North Warwickshire B78 on 4 August 2020 at 00:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire at 00:55 on Tuesday 4 August 2020. The 29-year-old male driver was 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
- 4 Aug 2020
- Tuesday, 00:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61462, longitude -1.6091, in the B78 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polesworth and Dordon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Polesworth East, North Warwickshire, B78 1EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020231005093
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5000
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 October 2005.
Serious
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on the B5000 in North Warwickshire, 25 October 2005
4 m awayRef 2005230596921
Slight
Car crash on the B5000 in North Warwickshire, 5 February 2001
4 m awayRef 2001230100221
Serious
Nissan X-Trail crash on the B5000 in North Warwickshire, 6 June 2008
46 m awayRef 2008230895962
Slight
Car crash on the B5000 in North Warwickshire, 23 October 1989
77 m awayRef 1989238901899
Slight
Car crash on the B5000 in North Warwickshire, 6 November 1985
77 m awayRef 1985238501746
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 24 November 1983
146 m awayRef 1983238301755
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020231005093 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 2020.