Serious B4098 crash in Coventry on 21 December 1986 at 10:35 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B4098 in Coventry at 10:35 on Sunday 21 December 1986. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 21 Dec 1986; Sunday, 10:35
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000M3904
Council area: Coventry
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4098
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 50 mph

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
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
50 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, not crossing
Pedestrian movement
Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic

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 19862000M3904 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 1986.