Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 6 September 2002 at 20:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 20:20 on Friday 6 September 2002. The 11-year-old male cyclist was 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
- 6 Sep 2002
- Friday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53708, longitude -2.01353, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hill Top, Sandwell, B70 0JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220K093601
- 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a fatal crash on 5 February 2017.
Fatal
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 February 2017
5 m awayRef 2017200165608
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K112501
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 30 December 2012
14 m awayRef 201220K501282
Serious
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 March 1999
20 m awayRef 199920K044601
Slight
Toyota Verso crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 April 2021
22 m awayRef 2021201056838
Slight
Jaguar X Type crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 May 2013
22 m awayRef 201320K005563
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 11, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200220K093601 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 2002.