Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV14 on 18 September 2000 at 07:45 involving a Vauxhall Frontera
A Vauxhall Frontera and a Vauxhall Astramax van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 07:45 on Monday 18 September 2000. The 42-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astramax van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2000
- Monday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Frontera and Vauxhall Astramax
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54972, longitude -2.09745, in the WV14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020G073902
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4126
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2016.
Slight
Chrysler PT Cruiser crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 10 June 2016
8 m awayRef 2016200078505
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 16 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019200925397
Serious
Ford Probe crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 20 April 2003
14 m awayRef 200320G035302
Slight
Bus crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 12 August 1989
41 m awayRef 19892000G1319
Slight
Bus crash on the A4123 in Wolverhampton, 19 June 1987
41 m awayRef 19872000G0887
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A4126 in Wolverhampton, 24 May 2000
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Frontera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astramax
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astramax)
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 200020G073902 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2000.