A4196 crash in Sandwell on 21 December 2005 at 12:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A4196 in Sandwell at 12:45 on Wednesday 21 December 2005. A 53-year-old female pedestrian hit by the Ford Fiesta 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
- 21 Dec 2005
- Wednesday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53753, longitude -2.01132, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hill Top, Sandwell, B70 0JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520K500801
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4196
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 3 April 2015
At the same spotRef 201520K004995
Slight
Jaguar F-Pace crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 June 2025
10 m awayRef 2025201605994
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 8 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200820K004901
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 1 April 2015
14 m awayRef 201520K004705
Serious
Scania crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 30 April 2010
20 m awayRef 201020K004870
Slight
Toyota Camry crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 6 July 1993
30 m awayRef 19932093K1050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200520K500801 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 2005.