Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 5 May 2008 at 16:15 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 16:15 on Monday 5 May 2008. A 4-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
- 5 May 2008
- Monday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41533, longitude -1.46875, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Upper Stoke, Coventry, CV2 4JT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820M024003
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2000.
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 6 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200020M080803
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 25 June 2012
20 m awayRef 201220M008872
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 29 July 2008
54 m awayRef 200820M040003
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Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 30 November 1990
67 m awayRef 19902090M2261
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Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 3 November 2005
73 m awayRef 200520M074703
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 11 June 1999
73 m awayRef 199920M113001
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, 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 200820M024003 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 2008.