Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV4 on 9 December 2017 at 19:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 19:30 on Saturday 9 December 2017. A 23-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55167, longitude -2.11422, in the WV4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall South & Spring Vale, Wolverhampton, WV4 6QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200252167
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- 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
- 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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 2 October 1997
55 m awayRef 19972097G1448
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 15 June 1990
55 m awayRef 19902000G1065
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 4 December 1989
58 m awayRef 19892000G1983
Serious
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 24 July 1997
88 m awayRef 19972097G1077
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 23 October 1985
88 m awayRef 19852000G2503
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 26 May 1988
88 m awayRef 19882000G0865
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 2017200252167 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2017.