Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 4 November 1980 at 12:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 12:10 on Tuesday 4 November 1980. A 5-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 1980
- Tuesday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52138, longitude -2.00438, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000K2330
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2012.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 19 June 2012
41 m awayRef 201220K010212
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 22 October 1999
51 m awayRef 199920K132301
Slight
Hyundai S-Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 June 2002
51 m awayRef 200220K070601
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 27 February 2007
61 m awayRef 200720K017901
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 January 2023
63 m awayRef 2023201278704
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 January 2025
66 m awayRef 2025201546987
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19802000K2330 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 1980.