Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 15 January 2015 at 11:08 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 11:08 on Thursday 15 January 2015. A 41-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 2015
- Thursday, 11:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51949, longitude -1.98802, 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 7QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201520K001075
- 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
- 20 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 April 1992.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 April 1992
14 m awayRef 19922092K0629
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Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 November 1997
14 m awayRef 19972097K2026
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 25 August 1987
14 m awayRef 19872000K1277
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Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 August 2025
17 m awayRef 2025201632549
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 February 2023
34 m awayRef 2023201290718
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 September 2006
36 m awayRef 200620K084801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- 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 201520K001075 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 2015.