Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 19 April 1988 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 18:00 on Tuesday 19 April 1988. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 1988
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41875, longitude -1.50297, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000M0648
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 1981.
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 1 January 1981
At the same spotRef 19812000M0005
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 29 May 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000M0884
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 12 April 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093M0618
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 12 March 1983
At the same spotRef 19832000M0698
Slight
Talbot Horizon crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 January 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091M0161
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 8 November 1998
28 m awayRef 199820M217701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19882000M0648 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 1988.