Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV4 on 23 January 2014 at 17:38 involving a Kia Ceed
A Kia Ceed hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 17:38 on Thursday 23 January 2014. A 50-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 17:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38174, longitude -1.56451, in the CV4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420M001094
- 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
- 20 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 October 2008.
Serious
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14 m awayRef 200820M054502
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 18 March 1994
57 m awayRef 19942094M0475
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 9 November 1990
57 m awayRef 19902090M2085
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 30 October 1988
57 m awayRef 19882000M1942
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 February 1996
57 m awayRef 19962096M0275
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 31 March 1995
57 m awayRef 19952095M0570
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Ceed
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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Ceed)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201420M001094 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 2014.