Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY2 on 23 May 2000 at 18:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 18:00 on Tuesday 23 May 2000. The 29-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo 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
- 23 May 2000
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50037, longitude -2.0913, in the DY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020J045501
- Council area
- Dudley
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 459
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
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2001.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200020J045501 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2000.