Unclassified road crash in Tamworth B79 on 16 September 2003 at 19:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tamworth at 19:15 on Tuesday 16 September 2003. An 8-year-old female 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2003
- Tuesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63928, longitude -1.69953, in the B79 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tamworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Spital, Tamworth, B79 8PB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tamworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003213425191
- Council area
- Tamworth
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 25 March 1986
14 m awayRef 1986216500201
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 23 June 1982
14 m awayRef 1982212500448
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 11 August 2003
14 m awayRef 2003213420498
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 8 February 1979
20 m awayRef 1979219500058
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 21 September 1990
28 m awayRef 1990210510503
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth, 21 July 1996
32 m awayRef 1996216815219
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2003213425191 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tamworth road accident statistics for 2003.