A4031 crash in Sandwell on 12 July 2014 at 09:59 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2014
- Saturday, 09:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51443, longitude -1.98671, in the B70 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Bromwich Central, Sandwell, B70 6RJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420K008654
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4031
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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 13 January 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 13 January 2014
At the same spotRef 201420K001044
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 16 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200120K174601
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 12 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199820K132401
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 7 June 2024
7 m awayRef 2024201453772
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 17 March 2019
10 m awayRef 2019200880200
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4031 in Sandwell, 30 April 2016
10 m awayRef 2016200065421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 201420K008654 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 2014.