Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B36 on 20 May 2002 at 10:10 involving an Austin Metro
An Austin Metro hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 10:10 on Monday 20 May 2002. A 54-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2002
- Monday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50243, longitude -1.7728, in the B36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shard End, Birmingham, B34 7JG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220L092001
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2010.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B4119 in Solihull, 6 September 2010
14 m awayRef 201020L009100
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A47 in Solihull, 13 December 1991
28 m awayRef 19912091L1074
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Solihull, 6 May 1985
28 m awayRef 19852000L0705
Slight
Car crash on the A47 in Solihull, 11 June 1987
28 m awayRef 19872000L0504
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the B4119 in Solihull, 24 January 2007
28 m awayRef 200720L022101
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A47 in Solihull, 18 May 1990
28 m awayRef 19902000L0533
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Austin Metro)
- 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 200220L092001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2002.