A461 crash in Walsall on 23 December 1986 at 21:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A461 in Walsall at 21:10 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly 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: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 21:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000H2842
Council area: Walsall
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 461
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: Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
66 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
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 19862000H2842 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 1986.