Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS1 on 5 February 2019 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Walsall at 19:00 on Tuesday 5 February 2019. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2019
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58084, longitude -1.97424, in the WS1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paddock, Walsall, WS1 2PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019200820289
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 July 2017.
Serious
Mercedes Cla Class crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 11 July 2017
7 m awayRef 2017200208578
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A34 in Walsall, 5 February 2003
15 m awayRef 200320H018601
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 23 August 1998
28 m awayRef 199820H116001
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 8 May 2018
30 m awayRef 2018200299452
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 23 November 2018
40 m awayRef 2018200813516
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Walsall, 30 January 1980
44 m awayRef 19802000H0180
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2019200820289 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 2019.