Fatal unclassified road crash in Solihull CV7 on 2 December 2002 at 10:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 10:00 on Monday 2 December 2002. A 94-year-old female pedestrian was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 2 Dec 2002
- Monday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.43475, longitude -1.63591, in the CV7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220L230701
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 February 2014.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B4104 in Solihull, 28 February 2014
10 m awayRef 201420L001794
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 November 1988
58 m awayRef 19882000L0949
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4104 in Solihull, 30 October 2010
121 m awayRef 201020L010540
Slight
Lada Samara crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 September 1998
130 m awayRef 199820L093701
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 10 July 2005
150 m awayRef 200520L122101
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 28 September 1998
160 m awayRef 199820L099301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalFemale, aged 94, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- 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 200220L230701 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.