Serious unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton on 24 December 1986 at 17:20 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 17:20 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 24 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 17:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000G3217
Council area: Wolverhampton
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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Reversing
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
27 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 7, 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 19862000G3217 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 1986.