A463 crash in Walsall on 31 December 1986 at 13:45 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A463 in Walsall at 13:45 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 13:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000H2920
Council area: Walsall
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 463
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: A
Second road number: 462

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 19862000H2920 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.