Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 8 July 2025 at 04:55 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 04:55 on Tuesday 8 July 2025. A 26-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 04:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50672, longitude -2.02932, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oldbury, Sandwell, B69 2HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201612992
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2001.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 June 2001
3 m awayRef 200120K125902
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 30 April 2002
3 m awayRef 200220K053902
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 March 2006
10 m awayRef 200620K027902
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 14 December 1990
31 m awayRef 19902090K2351
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 August 2000
33 m awayRef 200020K102502
Slight
Renault Espace crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 May 2006
52 m awayRef 200620K051602
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025201612992 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.