Unclassified road crash in Sandwell DY4 on 7 June 2016 at 14:20 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 14:20 on Tuesday 7 June 2016. An 85-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2016
- Tuesday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53801, longitude -2.06674, in the DY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Princes End, Sandwell, DY4 9QD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016200078186
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 2017.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 22 November 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200244212
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 November 2008
46 m awayRef 200820K094201
Slight
Vauxhall Calibra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 July 2007
46 m awayRef 200720K081801
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 30 July 2006
46 m awayRef 200620K066301
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 3 May 2005
59 m awayRef 200520K086601
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 February 2021
61 m awayRef 2021201040785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 85, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- 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 2016200078186 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 2016.