Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B68 on 14 January 1988 at 17:30 involving a van
A van, a car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 17:30 on Thursday 14 January 1988. The 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jan 1988
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Van and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48362, longitude -1.99701, in the B68 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19882000K0096
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Dislodged vehicle load in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 February 1993.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 February 1993
At the same spotRef 19932093K0296
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 April 1988
At the same spotRef 19882000K0667
Slight
Volvo 244 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 November 1995
At the same spotRef 19952095K6328
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 March 2009
20 m awayRef 200920K024902
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 28 September 2002
20 m awayRef 200220K131602
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 11 July 2024
21 m awayRef 2024201467225
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 3 (Motorcycle)
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 19882000K0096 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 1988.