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Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B91 on 16 September 2003 at 16:03 involving a Land Rover Discovery

A Land Rover Discovery, a Ford Escort and a Citroen Dispatch van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Solihull at 16:03 on Tuesday 16 September 2003. A 40-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Land Rover Discovery was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Sep 2003
Tuesday, 16:03
Vehicles
3
Land Rover Discovery and 2 others
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.42737, longitude -1.77481, in the B91 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Silhill, Solihull, B91 2HX area accident hotspot.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200320L182501
Council area
Solihull
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
Crossroads
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, 110 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2009.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Engine capacity
    2,495 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    11 years

  • Vehicle 2: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Engine capacity
    1,391 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

  • Vehicle 3: Citroen Dispatch

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Back
    Engine capacity
    1,997 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Discovery)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, not crossing

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 200320L182501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2003.