Serious unclassified road crash in Sandwell B69 on 10 February 1989 at 23:53 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 23:53 on Friday 10 February 1989. A 20-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Feb 1989
- Friday, 23:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48902, longitude -2.01174, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19892000K0265
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 71 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2006.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4170 in Sandwell, 5 August 2006
71 m awayRef 200620K075102
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B4170 in Sandwell, 3 January 2010
71 m awayRef 201020K001212
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 10 September 2000
78 m awayRef 200020K099502
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 17 July 2003
80 m awayRef 200320K083102
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 26 December 2025
91 m awayRef 2025201689318
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 June 1987
100 m awayRef 19872000K0908
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 19892000K0265 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 1989.