Unclassified road crash in Solihull B92 on 21 October 2006 at 18:13 involving a Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 18:13 on Saturday 21 October 2006. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2006
- Saturday, 18:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Beetle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44438, longitude -1.78546, in the B92 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Elmdon, Solihull, B92 8JZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620L174101
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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%
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2013.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Beetle
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Beetle)
- 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 200620L174101 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 2006.