Serious A491 crash in Dudley on 28 December 1986 at 22:05 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A491 in Dudley at 22:05 on Sunday 28 December 1986. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Serious
Date: 28 Dec 1986; Sunday, 22:05
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000J3023
Council area: Dudley
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 491
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine with high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 33, 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 19862000J3023 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 1986.