Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B70 on 6 November 2025 at 14:45 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 14:45 on Thursday 6 November 2025. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54323, longitude -2.01606, in the B70 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hill Top, Sandwell, B71 2PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201665682
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4196
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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 2020.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 May 2020
5 m awayRef 2020200954370
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025201674270
Slight
Skoda Kamiq crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 4 October 2022
11 m awayRef 2022201242904
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 9 November 2022
13 m awayRef 2022201250668
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 22 October 2021
13 m awayRef 2021201125604
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4196 in Sandwell, 30 March 2005
15 m awayRef 200520K048501
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2025201665682 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.