A4123 crash in Wolverhampton on 23 August 1980 at 09:15 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on the A4123 in Wolverhampton at 09:15 on Saturday 23 August 1980. A 45-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 1980
- Saturday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56537, longitude -2.1165, in the WV4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000G1697
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4123
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 28 August 1992
At the same spotRef 19922092G1228
Serious
Car crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 28 November 1984
At the same spotRef 19842000G3037
Serious
Car crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 4 December 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000G2528
Serious
Car crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 23 December 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000G2159
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 28 December 1991
At the same spotRef 19912091G2067
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 21 August 1980
At the same spotRef 19802000G1664
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 19802000G1697 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 1980.