A45 crash in Rugby on 9 December 2025 at 12:26 involving a Renault Master van
A Renault Master van and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A45 in Rugby at 12:26 on Tuesday 9 December 2025. The 29-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 12:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Master and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.36688, longitude -1.43497, in the CV8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ryton-on-Dunsmore. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dunsmore, Rugby, CV8 3QD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025231680765
- 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
- 45
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 9 December 2003.
Slight
Car crash on the A45 in Rugby, 9 December 2003
5 m awayRef 2003230397594
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A45 in Rugby, 16 December 1994
11 m awayRef 1994239402226
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A45 in Rugby, 4 October 1999
11 m awayRef 1999239901697
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A45 in Rugby, 16 August 1999
11 m awayRef 1999239901420
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A45 in Rugby, 22 May 2013
14 m awayRef 2013233560113
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A45 in Rugby, 26 June 1998
18 m awayRef 1998239801079
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Master
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025231680765 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 2025.