Serious unclassified road crash in Walsall WS2 on 29 December 2017 at 15:04 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Walsall at 15:04 on Friday 29 December 2017. A 21-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 2017
- Friday, 15:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.59159, longitude -1.99484, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Walsall, WS2 8JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017200254912
- Council area
- Walsall
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 July 2004.
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Slight
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Fatal
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 4 July 1999
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Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 29 November 2004
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2017200254912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2017.