Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 22 December 2000 at 16:25 involving a Lada Riva
A Lada Riva crashed on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 16:25 on Friday 22 December 2000. The 82-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2000
- Friday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lada Riva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48827, longitude -1.9795, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200020K155002
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lada Riva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,452 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lada Riva)
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 200020K155002 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 2000.