Serious unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV11 on 7 December 2024 at 11:02 involving a Maxus Deliver van
A Maxus Deliver van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 11:02 on Saturday 7 December 2024. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Dec 2024
- Saturday, 11:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Maxus Deliver
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60992, longitude -2.06167, in the WV11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesfield South, Wolverhampton, WV11 3EE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024201527037
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 15 April 1984
53 m awayRef 19842000G0919
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 8 May 1985
53 m awayRef 19852000G1145
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 13 May 1985
55 m awayRef 19852000G1106
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 14 May 1980
93 m awayRef 19802000G0891
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 5 November 1983
93 m awayRef 19832000G2616
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 11 November 1990
93 m awayRef 19902090G1922
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Maxus Deliver
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Maxus Deliver)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024201527037 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2024.