Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 2 October 1987 at 11:30 involving a lorry
A lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 11:30 on Friday 2 October 1987. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Oct 1987
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43939, longitude -1.49538, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19872000M1668
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19872000M1668 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 1987.