A4126 crash in Wolverhampton on 30 March 2002 at 18:44 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat hit a pedestrian on the A4126 in Wolverhampton at 18:44 on Saturday 30 March 2002. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 18:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54828, longitude -2.09789, in the WV14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall South & Spring Vale, Wolverhampton, WV14 9XE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220G031202
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4126
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2007.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 15 October 2007
22 m awayRef 200720G065802
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 6 March 1998
22 m awayRef 199820G018702
Slight
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 26 November 2020
26 m awayRef 2020201019482
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 9 March 2012
30 m awayRef 201220G003212
Slight
Car crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 22 March 2011
32 m awayRef 201120G002991
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 22 September 2024
39 m awayRef 2024201495295
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 200220G031202 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 2002.