Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV5 on 7 April 2025 at 11:45 involving a Kia Niro
A Kia Niro hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 11:45 on Monday 7 April 2025. A 48-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Monday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Niro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41778, longitude -1.55177, in the CV5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sherbourne, Coventry, CV5 8HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201574802
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4106
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the B4106 in Coventry, 13 November 2012
12 m awayRef 201220M015622
Slight
Car crash on the B4106 in Coventry, 16 September 2011
24 m awayRef 201120M013941
Slight
Car crash on the A4114 in Coventry, 19 January 1983
34 m awayRef 19832000M0145
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B4106 in Coventry, 19 August 2020
36 m awayRef 2020200983166
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B4106 in Coventry, 24 August 2006
43 m awayRef 200620M508001
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B4106 in Coventry, 22 September 2000
50 m awayRef 200020M110501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Niro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,580 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 48, hit by vehicle 1 (Kia Niro)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025201574802 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 2025.