A460 crash in Wolverhampton on 2 November 2007 at 18:19 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 hit a pedestrian on the A460 in Wolverhampton at 18:19 on Friday 2 November 2007. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2007
- Friday, 18:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59546, longitude -2.11763, in the WV10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heath Town, Wolverhampton, WV10 0BS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720G071102
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 460
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 February 2002.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 23 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200220G028602
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 20 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199820G069902
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 1 November 2019
3 m awayRef 2019200901040
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 6 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025201612349
Slight
Chrysler PT Cruiser crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 21 February 2020
8 m awayRef 2020200934813
Serious
Fiat Seicento crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 21 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201220G005282
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
- 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 200720G071102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2007.