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Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS4 on 31 July 1997 at 12:49 involving a Suzuki SJ

A Suzuki SJ crashed on an unclassified road in Walsall at 12:49 on Thursday 31 July 1997. An 8-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
31 Jul 1997
Thursday, 12:49
Vehicles
1
Suzuki SJ
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61667, longitude -1.96156, in the WS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rushall and Shelfield.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19972097H1044
Council area
Walsall
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 95 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki SJ

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    970 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki SJ)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 19972097H1044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 1997.