Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV6 on 8 March 2018 at 16:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 16:50 on Thursday 8 March 2018. A 16-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
- 8 Mar 2018
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44339, longitude -1.5318, in the CV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bablake, Coventry, CV7 8TL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200276645
- 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
- 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 phase at traffic signal
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2019.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 15 May 2019
6 m awayRef 2019200847585
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 24 June 2002
16 m awayRef 200220M045501
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 June 2007
26 m awayRef 200720M041301
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 August 1998
26 m awayRef 199820M163101
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 October 2022
33 m awayRef 2022201237771
Serious
Volvo 360 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 July 1991
33 m awayRef 19912091M1178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2018200276645 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 2018.