Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B68 on 16 March 2009 at 11:40 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 11:40 on Monday 16 March 2009. A 3-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2009
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48377, longitude -1.99702, in the B68 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bristnall, Sandwell, B68 8EB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920K024902
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2024.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 July 2024
1 m awayRef 2024201467225
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 August 2000
14 m awayRef 200020K086002
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 February 1993
20 m awayRef 19932093K0296
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 April 1988
20 m awayRef 19882000K0667
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 November 1995
20 m awayRef 19952095K6328
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 January 1988
20 m awayRef 19882000K0096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 3, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- 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 200920K024902 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 2009.