Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B71 on 14 September 2018 at 19:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 19:20 on Friday 14 September 2018. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2018
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52457, longitude -1.98941, in the B71 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hateley Heath, Sandwell, B71 1PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018200337684
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 55 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1989.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 November 1989
55 m awayRef 19892000K2034
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 June 1988
55 m awayRef 19882000K0969
Slight
Renault Captur crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 3 July 2023
61 m awayRef 2023201342305
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 February 2003
61 m awayRef 200320K024101
Serious
Derbi Atlantis crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 July 2003
65 m awayRef 200320K074801
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 January 1998
65 m awayRef 199820K005901
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- 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 2018200337684 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 2018.