A41 crash in Sandwell on 18 February 2002 at 08:50 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A car and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A41 in Sandwell at 08:50 on Monday 18 February 2002. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2002
- Monday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51011, longitude -1.96505, in the B71 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Bromwich Central, Sandwell, B71 4JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220K030101
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 2008.
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Audi A6 crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 25 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200820K023401
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Rover 600 Series crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 3 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200520K086201
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Renault 19 crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 18 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200520K058601
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Leyland DAF FA 65 crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 9 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199820K195601
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BMW X5 crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 22 November 2020
4 m awayRef 2020201008258
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Mazda CX-5 crash on the A41 in Sandwell, 30 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201635541
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200220K030101 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 2002.