Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV1 on 30 July 2016 at 12:51 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 12:51 on Saturday 30 July 2016. A 57-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jul 2016
- Saturday, 12:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40953, longitude -1.50954, in the CV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Coventry, CV1 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200112876
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016200112876 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 2016.