Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 31 January 2007 at 17:45 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 17:45 on Wednesday 31 January 2007. The 33-year-old female cyclist 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2007
- Wednesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48943, longitude -1.95579, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Victoria, Sandwell, B66 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720K021002
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 April 1991
50 m awayRef 19912091K0660
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 June 1980
50 m awayRef 19802000K1342
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 September 1993
50 m awayRef 19932093K1418
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 May 1995
50 m awayRef 19952095K5287
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 March 1980
50 m awayRef 19802000K0655
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 July 1981
50 m awayRef 19812000K1455
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 33, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200720K021002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2007.