Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 27 November 2002 at 18:35 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 18:35 on Wednesday 27 November 2002. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2002
- Wednesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 400 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47964, longitude -1.98348, in the B67 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B67 6RJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220K153702
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2003.
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K086702
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200120K120302
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 September 2025
10 m awayRef 2025201642682
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 January 2002
14 m awayRef 200220K006102
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 September 2002
22 m awayRef 200220K111902
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199920K127102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200220K153702 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.