Serious unclassified road crash in Coventry CV2 on 31 August 2021 at 22:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 22:15 on Tuesday 31 August 2021. A 44-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Aug 2021
- Tuesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40705, longitude -1.47885, in the CV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021201094585
- 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
- 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, lighting unknown
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2014.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 17 December 2014
40 m awayRef 201420M500574
Serious
Triumph Dolomite crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 4 March 1991
50 m awayRef 19912091M0409
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 2 December 1981
50 m awayRef 19812000M3134
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 16 December 1989
50 m awayRef 19892000M2337
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 18 September 2016
79 m awayRef 2016200110893
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 4 March 2009
79 m awayRef 200920M012402
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 44, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021201094585 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 2021.