Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV3 on 11 July 2025 at 16:49 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 16:49 on Friday 11 July 2025. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Friday, 16:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38701, longitude -1.4663, in the CV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Binley & Willenhall, Coventry, CV3 3EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201614814
- 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
- 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, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2020.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 November 2020
89 m awayRef 2020201023084
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 27 April 1980
89 m awayRef 19802000M1039
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 12 May 1994
89 m awayRef 19942094M0808
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 2 December 1999
92 m awayRef 199920M237401
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 23 January 2003
96 m awayRef 200320M011202
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 3 July 2012
96 m awayRef 201220M009382
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2025201614814 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.