Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV3 on 18 December 2012 at 22:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 22:15 on Tuesday 18 December 2012. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 2012
- Tuesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4077, longitude -1.49236, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV2 4FU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220M017182
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2000.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 March 2000
22 m awayRef 200020M060401
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 4 December 2023
23 m awayRef 2023201384327
Serious
Bus crash on the A46 in Coventry, 13 September 1982
36 m awayRef 19822000M2347
Serious
Seat Marbella crash on the A428 in Coventry, 11 February 1991
36 m awayRef 19912091M0264
Fatal
Car crash on the A46 in Coventry, 7 January 1981
36 m awayRef 19812000M0050
Slight
MCW crash on the A4600 in Coventry, 14 August 1997
36 m awayRef 19972097M1476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 201220M017182 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 2012.