Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS2 on 2 October 2025 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Walsall at 09:00 on Thursday 2 October 2025. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 2025
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58763, longitude -1.98371, in the WS2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Matthew's, Walsall, WS1 1NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201650203
- Council area
- Walsall
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 2021.
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 11 March 2021
20 m awayRef 2021201030165
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 16 September 1997
30 m awayRef 19972097H1260
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 4 January 1995
30 m awayRef 19952095H0041
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 6 August 1993
30 m awayRef 19932093H0991
Slight
Car crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 5 December 1980
30 m awayRef 19802000H2376
Slight
Car crash on the A4148 in Walsall, 26 January 1988
30 m awayRef 19882000H0119
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2025201650203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2025.