Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B71 on 20 February 2003 at 20:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 20:30 on Thursday 20 February 2003. A 55-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 2003
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52477, longitude -1.98862, in the B71 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hateley Heath, Sandwell, B71 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320K024101
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2023.
Slight
Renault Captur crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 3 July 2023
29 m awayRef 2023201342305
Slight
BMW M2 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 April 2025
29 m awayRef 2025201577110
Serious
Derbi Atlantis crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 July 2003
32 m awayRef 200320K074801
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 January 1998
32 m awayRef 199820K005901
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 27 June 1981
36 m awayRef 19812000K1396
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 March 1997
36 m awayRef 19972097K0472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200320K024101 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 2003.