Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV5 on 19 September 2025 at 05:13 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Coventry at 05:13 on Friday 19 September 2025. The 10-year-old male cyclist 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
- 19 Sep 2025
- Friday, 05:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.41621, longitude -1.56982, in the CV5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bablake, Coventry, CV5 9BP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201644264
- Council area
- Coventry
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1980.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A45 in Coventry, 10 June 1980
47 m awayRef 19802000M1387
Serious
Datsun Cherry crash on the A45 in Coventry, 23 November 1991
99 m awayRef 19912091M2120
Fatal
Car crash on the A45 in Coventry, 2 October 1989
99 m awayRef 19892000M1760
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A45 in Coventry, 23 October 2002
109 m awayRef 200220M072401
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A45 in Coventry, 11 June 2016
112 m awayRef 2016200078791
Slight
DAF Trucks Fad 85CF crash on the A45 in Coventry, 18 December 2001
115 m awayRef 200120M502501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 10, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025201644264 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.