A4098 crash in Walsall on 20 March 2002 at 17:55 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A4098 in Walsall at 17:55 on Wednesday 20 March 2002. The 30-year-old female driver of the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 2002
- Wednesday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.55856, longitude -2.05602, in the WV14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bilston, Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bilston South, Wolverhampton, WV14 0TT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220H021502
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4098
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2006.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 14 October 2006
10 m awayRef 200620H068402
Slight
Car crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 7 October 1983
40 m awayRef 19832000H2132
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 17 July 1984
40 m awayRef 19842000H1550
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 10 June 1994
40 m awayRef 19942094H0763
Slight
Car crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 12 May 1989
40 m awayRef 19892000H0758
Slight
Car crash on the A4098 in Walsall, 30 January 1982
40 m awayRef 19822000H0202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
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 200220H021502 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 2002.