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Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 7 September 1997 at 01:10

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 01:10 on Sunday 7 September 1997. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
7 Sep 1997
Sunday, 01:10
Vehicles
1
Other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40708, longitude -1.50751, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.

Map of where the crash happened in Coventry

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19972097M1647
Council area
Coventry
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 May 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    56 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

    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 19972097M1647 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 1997.