Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B92 on 19 May 1980 at 18:52 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 18:52 on Monday 19 May 1980. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 19 May 1980
- Monday, 18:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43938, longitude -1.78812, in the B92 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19802000L0646
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 27 January 1997
At the same spotRef 19972097L0106
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 15 January 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093L0033
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 31 March 1983
At the same spotRef 19832000L0508
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 17 May 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000L0530
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 17 November 1989
At the same spotRef 19892000L1190
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 5 September 2012
78 m awayRef 201220L005672
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 19802000L0646 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 1980.