Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull CV7 on 1 December 2009 at 15:48 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 15:48 on Tuesday 1 December 2009. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.39067, longitude -1.65435, in the CV7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Balsall Common. It is one of the crashes that make up the Balsall & Berkswell, Solihull, CV7 7RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920L171501
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 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 23 September 2000.
Slight
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 23 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200020L093001
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 22 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199820L120901
Serious
Car crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 4 February 1982
28 m awayRef 19822000L0158
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 16 June 2004
41 m awayRef 200420L108801
Serious
Car crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 11 October 1985
82 m awayRef 19852000L1697
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B4105 in Solihull, 19 January 1990
82 m awayRef 19902000L0067
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 14,620 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- 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 200920L171501 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 2009.