A454 crash in Wolverhampton on 4 April 2012 at 11:57 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A454 in Wolverhampton at 11:57 on Wednesday 4 April 2012. A 28-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2012
- Wednesday, 11:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58624, longitude -2.16233, in the WV3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tettenhall Wightwick, Wolverhampton, WV3 9DG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220G003852
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 454
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 11 January 2005
At the same spotRef 200520G005301
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 10 November 2017
8 m awayRef 2017200241622
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 6 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201320G013183
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 23 April 1993
30 m awayRef 19932093G0584
Slight
Scooter crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 26 November 1981
30 m awayRef 19812000G2462
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on the A454 in Wolverhampton, 2 November 1997
30 m awayRef 19972097G1677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201220G003852 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2012.