Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS3 on 3 March 2012 at 19:08 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Walsall at 19:08 on Saturday 3 March 2012. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Mar 2012
- Saturday, 19:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61772, longitude -1.9917, in the WS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bloxwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloxwich East & Blakenall Heath, Walsall, WS3 3AY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220H002192
- Council area
- Walsall
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 2000.
Serious
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At the same spotRef 200020H092302
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 13 November 2001
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 10 March 1999
14 m awayRef 199920H034702
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 6 June 1998
22 m awayRef 199820H077201
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Seat Alhambra crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 1 June 2000
22 m awayRef 200020H040602
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 24 October 1999
22 m awayRef 199920H092402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 201220H002192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2012.