Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 28 December 2012 at 22:42 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 22:42 on Friday 28 December 2012. A 54-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2012
- Friday, 22:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50885, longitude -1.99245, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Bromwich Central, Sandwell, B70 6RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220K500122
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4182
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 January 2017.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 16 January 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200147883
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 31 July 2010
10 m awayRef 201020K008780
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 24 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200220K125101
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 30 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199920K096601
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 16 March 2012
14 m awayRef 201220K004172
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A4182 in Sandwell, 8 February 2003
14 m awayRef 200320K017701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- 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 201220K500122 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 2012.