B4098 crash in North Warwickshire on 15 August 2025 at 18:05 involving a Mercedes B Class
A Mercedes B Class and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire at 18:05 on Friday 15 August 2025. The 43-year-old female driver of the Mercedes B Class and the 36-year-old male driver of the Ford S-Max 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
- 15 Aug 2025
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes B Class and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51958, longitude -1.63493, in the B46 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Arley and Whitacre, North Warwickshire, B46 2LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Warwickshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025231633332
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4098
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4114
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 20 November 2019.
Serious
Jaguar XF Series crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire, 20 November 2019
At the same spotRef 2019230908244
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire, 4 September 2024
1 m awayRef 2024231489651
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire, 31 December 2023
1 m awayRef 2023231401901
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire, 8 January 2016
1 m awayRef 2016230042220
Serious
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the B4098 in North Warwickshire, 27 November 2024
1 m awayRef 2024231529242
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the B4114 in North Warwickshire, 2 August 2021
1 m awayRef 2021231074982
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes B Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes B Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford S-Max)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025231633332 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 2025.