Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B92 on 17 December 2004 at 20:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 20:50 on Friday 17 December 2004. A 37-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2004
- Friday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44751, longitude -1.77411, in the B92 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420L227001
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1996.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 January 1996
51 m awayRef 19962096L0117
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 May 1980
103 m awayRef 19802000L0606
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 July 1992
150 m awayRef 19922092L0573
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 April 1983
186 m awayRef 19832000L0653
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 7 November 1993
196 m awayRef 19932093L0883
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 July 1981
196 m awayRef 19812000L0957
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- 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 200420L227001 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 2004.