Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 1 April 2025 at 08:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 08:30 on Tuesday 1 April 2025. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48448, longitude -1.99021, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B67 6RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201574523
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2025.
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 2 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201662691
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K074602
Slight
Aprilia SR 50 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 29 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K061502
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 October 2001
13 m awayRef 200120K176902
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 22 October 2010
13 m awayRef 201020K013410
Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 January 2008
13 m awayRef 200820K016902
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2025201574523 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 2025.