Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY1 on 3 November 2002 at 18:00 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 18:00 on Sunday 3 November 2002. The 27-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2002
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51197, longitude -2.08632, in the DY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. James's, Dudley, DY2 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220J117301
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 200220J117301 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 2002.