Unclassified road crash in Solihull B36 on 19 April 2008 at 16:45 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 16:45 on Saturday 19 April 2008. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 2008
- Saturday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5048, longitude -1.7445, in the B36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingshurst & Smith's Wood, Solihull, B36 0RP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820L073201
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 September 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the M6 in Solihull, 27 September 1987
41 m awayRef 19872000L0818
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 28 August 1993
41 m awayRef 19932093L0655
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 21 November 1991
41 m awayRef 19912091L1006
Serious
Vauxhall Astravan crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 2 February 1997
41 m awayRef 19972097L0133
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 March 1994
41 m awayRef 19942094L0250
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 20 December 1998
50 m awayRef 199820L133201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200820L073201 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 2008.