Serious unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV10 on 28 December 1988 at 15:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 15:50 on Wednesday 28 December 1988. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 1988
- Wednesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59144, longitude -2.11657, in the WV10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000G2172
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 14 May 1998
92 m awayRef 199820G038002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 29 October 1984
100 m awayRef 19842000G2657
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 20 March 1988
100 m awayRef 19882000G0476
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 2 August 1980
100 m awayRef 19802000G1527
Serious
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 18 August 1982
100 m awayRef 19822000G1755
Serious
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 27 November 1993
141 m awayRef 19932093G1707
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 19882000G2172 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 1988.