A452 crash in Walsall on 30 December 1986 at 09:15 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A452 in Walsall at 09:15 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. The 16-year-old male driver of the van and the 52-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 09:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19862000H2865
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 452
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 16, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 19862000H2865 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 1986.