Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 5 June 2021 at 15:00 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia and a London Taxis Int. TX4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 15:00 on Saturday 5 June 2021. The 32-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Insignia was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 2021
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Insignia and London Taxis Int. TX4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4071, longitude -1.51563, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021201065703
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 April 2008
5 m awayRef 200820M023001
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 June 2013
14 m awayRef 201320M007813
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 August 2008
16 m awayRef 200820M046901
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the B4454 in Coventry, 17 December 2003
17 m awayRef 200320M096801
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 June 2006
26 m awayRef 200620M038001
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 December 2021
30 m awayRef 2021201143680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- 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
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: London Taxis Int. TX4
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Insignia)
- 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 2021201065703 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 2021.