Serious unclassified road crash in Dudley DY5 on 6 May 2007 at 12:03 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Dudley at 12:03 on Sunday 6 May 2007. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 May 2007
- Sunday, 12:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47447, longitude -2.10361, in the DY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brierley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood, Dudley, DY5 2DJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J038102
- Council area
- Dudley
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 1 July 1985
41 m awayRef 19852000J1437
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 26 October 1980
41 m awayRef 19802000J2101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 17 September 1981
61 m awayRef 19812000J1742
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 15 June 1984
98 m awayRef 19842000J1408
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 20 September 1984
108 m awayRef 19842000J2124
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 28 September 1993
108 m awayRef 19932093J1329
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 100 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 200720J038102 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2007.