Unclassified road crash in Coventry CV5 on 23 September 2025 at 17:00 involving a Lexus CT 200 taxi
A Lexus CT 200 taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Coventry at 17:00 on Tuesday 23 September 2025. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus CT 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.395, longitude -1.55035, in the CV5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Coventry. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tile Hill & Canley, Coventry, CV4 8GG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Coventry
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201645657
- 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
- Other
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 28 July 2023
10 m awayRef 2023201355891
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 20 March 1997
63 m awayRef 19972097M0494
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 26 February 1987
63 m awayRef 19872000M0308
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 5 March 1985
63 m awayRef 19852000M0656
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 20 October 1989
63 m awayRef 19892000M1925
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Coventry, 21 December 1991
63 m awayRef 19912091M2333
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus CT 200
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Lexus CT 200)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2025201645657 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.