Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 24 January 2017 at 07:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 07:30 on Tuesday 24 January 2017. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2017
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43681, longitude -1.48302, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longford, Coventry, CV2 1JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200152945
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2017200152945 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 2017.