Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B64 on 16 October 2002 at 16:05 involving a Ford Escort
A van and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 16:05 on Wednesday 16 October 2002. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and a 19-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort were 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
- 16 Oct 2002
- Wednesday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47187, longitude -2.08521, in the B64 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cradley Heath. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cradley Heath & Old Hill, Sandwell, B64 7BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200220K133502
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2012.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 23 May 1987
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 13 July 2009
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Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 5 June 1995
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200220K133502 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.