Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B26 on 1 March 1988 at 08:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 08:10 on Tuesday 1 March 1988. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 15 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Mar 1988
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45186, longitude -1.73362, in the B26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000L0159
- Council area
- Solihull
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 15 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, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2006.
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 8 February 1987
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Slight
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Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 5 May 1988
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 19882000L0159 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 1988.