Serious unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton on 29 December 1986 at 17:00 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 17:00 on Monday 29 December 1986. The 47-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 17:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000G3237
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: Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Hit object in carriageway
Other object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
47 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Serious
Female, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 19862000G3237 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.