Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 26 December 2002 at 13:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 13:00 on Thursday 26 December 2002. The 8-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48853, longitude -1.95122, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Edgbaston, Birmingham, B18 4ED area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220K504402
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 11 March 1996
51 m awayRef 19962096K0506
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 December 1988
51 m awayRef 19882000K2295
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 August 1980
51 m awayRef 19802000K1765
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 7 May 1997
51 m awayRef 19972097K0765
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 13 July 1993
51 m awayRef 19932093K1084
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 18 October 1996
51 m awayRef 19962096K1999
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 8, 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 200220K504402 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.