Serious A4100 crash in Sandwell on 25 December 1986 at 00:09 involving a van

A van hit a pedestrian on the A4100 in Sandwell at 00:09 on Thursday 25 December 1986. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1986; Thursday, 00:09
Vehicles: 1; Van
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000K3636
Council area: Sandwell
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 4100
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: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South West
Travelling to
North East
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
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 19862000K3636 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.