Fatal A34 crash in Sandwell on 23 December 1986 at 10:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A34 in Sandwell at 10:10 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. A 91-year-old female pedestrian was killed.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Fatal
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 10:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 killed

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000K3608
Council area: Sandwell
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 34
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 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: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
South East
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
46 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Fatal
Female, aged 91, 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 19862000K3608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 1986.