A4126 crash in Wolverhampton on 8 January 2003 at 16:45 involving a Fiat Tipo
A Fiat Tipo hit a pedestrian on the A4126 in Wolverhampton at 16:45 on Wednesday 8 January 2003. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2003
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Tipo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55718, longitude -2.1013, in the WV4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320G006002
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4126
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 November 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 22 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200420G089802
Serious
Citroen C3 crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 13 May 2015
22 m awayRef 201520G009725
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 2 July 2000
22 m awayRef 200020G054302
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 4 March 1999
32 m awayRef 199920G017402
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 8 January 1988
32 m awayRef 19882000G0025
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 2 October 1991
32 m awayRef 19912091G1491
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Tipo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,372 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Fiat Tipo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200320G006002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2003.