Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 20 December 2007 at 15:29 involving a Scania bus
A Scania bus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 15:29 on Thursday 20 December 2007. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 15:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48077, longitude -1.73183, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, B37 7JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720L210401
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2000.
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200020L120001
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 6 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200220L045301
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 October 2007
10 m awayRef 200720L171601
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 17 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199820L081401
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 28 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200720L043701
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 13 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200320L120201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Scania)
- 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 200720L210401 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 2007.