Unclassified road crash in Walsall WS3 on 22 February 2000 at 09:20 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry
A Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Walsall at 09:20 on Tuesday 22 February 2000. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2000
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Leyland DAF FA 45 and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62671, longitude -1.96599, in the WS3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020H015002
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 17 April 1988
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20 m awayRef 19812000H1406
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Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 1 April 1992
20 m awayRef 19922092H0451
Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,880 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 200020H015002 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 2000.