Unclassified road crash in Solihull B93 on 15 December 2005 at 16:20 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 16:20 on Thursday 15 December 2005. The 81-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi 80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37198, longitude -1.77068, in the B93 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520L225101
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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, 91 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 5 July 1988
91 m awayRef 19882000L0519
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 10 November 1985
127 m awayRef 19852000L1813
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 July 1985
127 m awayRef 19852000L1097
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 17 November 1984
127 m awayRef 19842000L2017
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 September 2003
130 m awayRef 200320L177901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 13 August 2006
134 m awayRef 200620L141501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 80)
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 200520L225101 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 2005.