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Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B65 on 24 July 2003 at 12:10 involving a bicycle

A bicycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 12:10 on Thursday 24 July 2003. The 10-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured and a 4-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Jul 2003
Thursday, 12:10
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4941, longitude -2.04091, in the B65 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rowley Regis. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rowley, Sandwell, B65 9HX area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200320K117102
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2021.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Lane or location
    Footway (pavement)
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    10 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

  • Casualty 2: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 200320K117102 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.