B4138 crash in Walsall on 12 April 1997 at 12:57 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B4138 in Walsall at 12:57 on Saturday 12 April 1997. The 42-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 1997
- Saturday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57975, longitude -1.87599, in the B74 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19972097H0477
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4138
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1995.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 10 June 1995
At the same spotRef 19952095D1521
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4138 in Walsall, 4 May 2004
32 m awayRef 200420H028901
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4138 in Birmingham, 29 April 2016
44 m awayRef 2016200137588
Slight
Toyota crash on the B4138 in Walsall, 28 December 2007
50 m awayRef 200720H502401
Slight
BMW X4 crash on the B4138 in Walsall, 3 December 2025
78 m awayRef 2025201678713
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B4138 in Walsall, 23 February 2007
80 m awayRef 200720H010501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
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 19972097H0477 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 1997.