Unclassified road crash in Sandwell WS5 on 5 January 2023 at 18:00 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 18:00 on Thursday 5 January 2023. A 57-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2023
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Qashqai
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56095, longitude -1.95731, in the WS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Paddock, Walsall, WS5 3RD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201276908
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 39 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 March 2018.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 March 2018
39 m awayRef 2018200282001
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 June 2011
43 m awayRef 201120K009001
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 9 March 1995
98 m awayRef 19952095H0360
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 December 2025
117 m awayRef 2025201686376
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 October 1997
137 m awayRef 19972097K1853
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 26 July 1996
147 m awayRef 19962096H1062
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 57, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2023201276908 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 2023.