A45 crash in Coventry on 27 October 2024 at 12:44 involving an Audi Q5
A van and an Audi Q5 were involved in a crash on the A45 in Coventry at 12:44 on Sunday 27 October 2024. The 34-year-old male driver of the Audi Q5 and a 29-year-old female passenger in the Audi Q5 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2024
- Sunday, 12:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Audi Q5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37866, longitude -1.5013, in the CV3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wainbody, Coventry, CV3 6QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201509099
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 45
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in Coventry, 25 February 2005
6 m awayRef 200520M016602
Serious
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A45 in Coventry, 4 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200020M120602
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 December 2016
20 m awayRef 2016200144106
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A45 in Coventry, 30 July 1998
27 m awayRef 199820M146401
Serious
Chevrolet Matiz crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 May 2019
28 m awayRef 2019200876375
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 28 January 2020
30 m awayRef 2020200934283
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 46 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Audi Q5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi Q5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024201509099 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 2024.