Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B92 on 21 December 2006 at 00:10 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 00:10 on Thursday 21 December 2006. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4348, longitude -1.81154, in the B92 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Olton, Solihull, B92 7BX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200620L211601
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1994.
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 31 August 1994
14 m awayRef 19942094L0761
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 29 November 1983
14 m awayRef 19832000L1763
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 October 1995
14 m awayRef 19952095L1410
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 14 December 2002
57 m awayRef 200220L238101
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 31 January 2007
64 m awayRef 200720L025801
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 November 1998
73 m awayRef 199820L120801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200620L211601 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.