Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B66 on 20 June 2025 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 08:30 on Friday 20 June 2025. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48566, longitude -1.96214, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Soho & Victoria, Sandwell, B66 3PX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201606463
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4092
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2011.
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 March 2011
32 m awayRef 201120K003191
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 February 2005
32 m awayRef 200520K023402
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 4 November 2008
32 m awayRef 200820K104202
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 October 2016
34 m awayRef 2016200118521
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A4092 in Sandwell, 23 June 2012
37 m awayRef 201220K007422
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A4092 in Sandwell, 27 October 2022
40 m awayRef 2022201237288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025201606463 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.