Unclassified road crash in Solihull B90 on 5 December 2025 at 17:00 involving a BMW X1
A BMW X1 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Solihull at 17:00 on Friday 5 December 2025. A 66-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2025
- Friday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.40117, longitude -1.81562, in the B90 postcode district and within the built-up area of Solihull. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shirley South, Solihull, B90 4LD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201680978
- Council area
- Solihull
- 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
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 1997.
Serious
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 22 November 1997
73 m awayRef 19972097L1104
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 1 June 1992
73 m awayRef 19922092L0459
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 17 August 1995
73 m awayRef 19952095L1179
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 16 November 1987
73 m awayRef 19872000L0991
Slight
Lorry crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 4 May 1989
73 m awayRef 19892000L0461
Slight
MG Metro crash on the B4102 in Solihull, 13 July 1998
76 m awayRef 199820L071101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW X1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025201680978 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Solihull road accident statistics for 2025.