Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV11 on 4 September 2002 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Rover Metro were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 17:30 on Wednesday 4 September 2002. The 29-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra 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
- 4 Sep 2002
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6027, longitude -2.05947, in the WV11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesfield South, Wolverhampton, WV11 3EE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220G077802
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- 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, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 9 October 1992
58 m awayRef 19922092G1447
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 16 September 1989
58 m awayRef 19892000G1459
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 2 March 1982
58 m awayRef 19822000G0429
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 16 February 1997
58 m awayRef 19972097G0257
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 31 March 1984
58 m awayRef 19842000G0825
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 5 January 1983
58 m awayRef 19832000G0020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200220G077802 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 2002.