A426 crash in Rugby on 10 August 2024 at 06:47 involving a Dacia Sandero
A Dacia Sandero and a Fiat Scudo were involved in a crash on the A426 in Rugby at 06:47 on Saturday 10 August 2024. The 27-year-old male driver of the Dacia Sandero and a 29-year-old female passenger in the Dacia Sandero were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2024
- Saturday, 06:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dacia Sandero and Fiat Scudo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.34425, longitude -1.28321, in the CV22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dunchurch. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunsmore, Rugby, CV22 6PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024231480429
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 426
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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 serious injury crash on 5 January 1998.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A426 in Rugby, 5 January 1998
2 m awayRef 1998239800027
Serious
Aprilia crash on the A426 in Rugby, 1 November 2002
2 m awayRef 2002230297376
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A426 in Rugby, 3 June 1999
2 m awayRef 1999239900957
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A426 in Rugby, 23 April 2009
2 m awayRef 2009230995523
Serious
Car crash on the A426 in Rugby, 12 May 2020
4 m awayRef 2020230952665
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A426 in Rugby, 21 November 2012
4 m awayRef 2012233642612
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dacia Sandero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Fiat Scudo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dacia Sandero)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2024231480429 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 2024.