Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 9 August 2017 at 20:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 20:30 on Wednesday 9 August 2017. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Aug 2017
- Wednesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43369, longitude -1.49918, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Foleshill, Coventry, CV6 5SP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200213038
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 60 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1993.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 1 March 1993
60 m awayRef 19932093M0364
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 20 October 1990
60 m awayRef 19902090M1919
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 March 1985
60 m awayRef 19852000M0868
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 April 1989
60 m awayRef 19892000M0600
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 August 1997
60 m awayRef 19972097M1502
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 14 November 2016
69 m awayRef 2016200132467
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017200213038 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.