Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 31 July 2001 at 12:00 involving an Audi
An Audi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 12:00 on Tuesday 31 July 2001. A 7-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
- 31 Jul 2001
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50229, longitude -1.96579, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Holyhead, Birmingham, B66 2EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200120K142802
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2005.
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi)
- 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 200120K142802 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2001.