Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 22 September 2023 at 23:45 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 23:45 on Friday 22 September 2023. An 18-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 2023
- Friday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49182, longitude -1.9794, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023201409377
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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 with 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, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 October 1980.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 October 1980
13 m awayRef 19802000K2144
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 27 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025201582685
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 January 2012
20 m awayRef 201220K000502
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 September 2001
27 m awayRef 200120K162502
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 3 December 2002
41 m awayRef 200220K157202
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 April 2000
63 m awayRef 200020K043402
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Tiguan)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- 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 2023201409377 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.