Unclassified road crash in Solihull B37 on 26 April 2014 at 01:00 involving a Ford S-Max
A Ford S-Max hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 01:00 on Saturday 26 April 2014. A 28-year-old female 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
- 26 Apr 2014
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48404, longitude -1.74462, in the B37 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fordbridge, Solihull, B37 5FD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201420L002704
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2011.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 30 August 2002
32 m awayRef 200220L153201
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Aprilia crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 7 August 2007
45 m awayRef 200720L126401
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Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 9 January 2020
60 m awayRef 2020200933717
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 August 1997
89 m awayRef 19972097L0723
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Talbot Solara crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 8 May 1991
100 m awayRef 19912091L0421
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford S-Max)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201420L002704 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2014.