Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 18 August 2000 at 14:10 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 14:10 on Friday 18 August 2000. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2000
- Friday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40967, longitude -1.51057, 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
- 200020M101701
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2006.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 4 November 2022
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 2 April 1998
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Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 6 February 2000
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Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 May 2019
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- 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 200020M101701 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 2000.