Unclassified road crash in Solihull B93 on 4 September 1989 at 20:50 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 20:50 on Monday 4 September 1989. A 26-year-old female passenger and the 29-year-old male driver were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Sep 1989
- Monday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39078, longitude -1.7575, in the B93 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19892000L0910
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2000.
Slight
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Van crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 14 September 1984
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 16 December 1993
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Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 5 September 1994
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Slight
Austin Mini crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 1 April 1996
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 19892000L0910 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 1989.