Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV1 on 14 February 2013 at 13:15 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 13:15 on Thursday 14 February 2013. A 49-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 2013
- Thursday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58448, longitude -2.12542, in the WV1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Peters, Wolverhampton, WV1 4HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201320G002173
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 10 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199820G019301
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 3 November 2010
10 m awayRef 201020G009670
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 27 March 1999
10 m awayRef 199920G025801
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 28 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200620G018601
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 22 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200020G120201
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 16 March 2001
10 m awayRef 200120G072601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201320G002173 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 2013.