Serious unclassified road crash in Solihull B94 on 30 January 2022 at 02:35 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Solihull at 02:35 on Sunday 30 January 2022. The 30-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Jan 2022
- Sunday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.37022, longitude -1.81082, in the B94 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Solihull
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022201160897
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2006.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 24 December 2006
19 m awayRef 200620L212101
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 October 1999
51 m awayRef 199920L102801
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulia crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 18 August 2025
123 m awayRef 2025201630962
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 12 March 1982
125 m awayRef 19822000L0364
Serious
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 28 April 1990
125 m awayRef 19902000L0436
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Solihull, 11 December 2010
131 m awayRef 201020L012050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2022201160897 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2022.