Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B43 on 2 August 2003 at 12:05 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 12:05 on Saturday 2 August 2003. A 45-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Aug 2003
- Saturday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53959, longitude -1.9404, in the B43 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newton & Valley, Sandwell, B43 5EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320K086501
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 4 June 2007
58 m awayRef 200720K045901
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 August 2010
98 m awayRef 201020K010040
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 December 2017
127 m awayRef 2017200251087
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 May 2016
136 m awayRef 2016200070842
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 February 1993
143 m awayRef 19932093K0218
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 29 October 1997
143 m awayRef 19972097K1893
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200320K086501 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.