Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 3 April 2017 at 08:32 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 08:32 on Monday 3 April 2017. A 7-year-old female 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
- 3 Apr 2017
- Monday, 08:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48998, longitude -1.95645, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Victoria, Sandwell, B66 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200176839
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 21 June 1999.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 June 1999
8 m awayRef 199920K083502
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 December 2018
10 m awayRef 2018200814494
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 November 1982
47 m awayRef 19822000K2892
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 February 1988
54 m awayRef 19882000K0230
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 31 January 2007
73 m awayRef 200720K021002
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 May 2014
94 m awayRef 201420K006524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017200176839 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 2017.