A34 crash in Sandwell on 31 December 1986 at 10:53 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A34 in Sandwell at 10:53 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 10:53
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000K3662
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: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: A
Second road number: 4041

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
Going ahead
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
24 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 13, 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 19862000K3662 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.