Unclassified road crash in Solihull on 16 December 1986 at 07:05 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 07:05 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. The 19-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19862000L2079
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 19862000L2079 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 1986.