Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 4 November 2017 at 23:07 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 23:07 on Saturday 4 November 2017. A 58-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 2017
- Saturday, 23:07
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47802, longitude -1.98933, in the B67 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Warley, Sandwell, B68 9DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200237656
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 May 1998
12 m awayRef 199820K091301
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 April 2014
15 m awayRef 201420K004714
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 November 2021
16 m awayRef 2021201127377
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 31 December 2015
21 m awayRef 2015200040343
Serious
Citroen Relay crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 December 2022
21 m awayRef 2022201255699
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 December 1998
22 m awayRef 199820K259201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2017200237656 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.