A461 crash in Dudley on 29 December 1986 at 23:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A461 in Dudley at 23:15 on Monday 29 December 1986. A 58-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1986; Monday, 23:15
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000J3029
Council area: Dudley
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 461
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to go ahead
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
51 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 19862000J3029 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 1986.