B4173 crash in Sandwell on 23 December 1986 at 14:10 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B4173 in Sandwell at 14:10 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. A 71-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 14:10
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000K3613
Council area: Sandwell
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4173
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Other 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: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Reversing
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North East
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 19862000K3613 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.