B4456 crash in Walsall on 7 June 2003 at 23:40 involving a Rover 200 Series
A car and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the B4456 in Walsall at 23:40 on Saturday 7 June 2003. A 44-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2003
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57808, longitude -1.99982, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pleck, Walsall, WS2 9PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320H043201
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4456
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 2010.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 13 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201020H002550
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 27 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200920H027501
Slight
Van crash on the B4456 in Walsall, 22 October 1982
14 m awayRef 19822000H2056
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the B4456 in Walsall, 4 March 1990
14 m awayRef 19902000H0435
Serious
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 6 July 2013
14 m awayRef 201320H005543
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B4456 in Walsall, 1 May 1996
14 m awayRef 19962096H0641
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 44, hit by vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200320H043201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2003.