Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV6 on 23 January 2003 at 14:11 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift crashed on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 14:11 on Thursday 23 January 2003. The 75-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2003
- Thursday, 14:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.58402, longitude -2.2001, in the WV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320G010701
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2014.
Slight
Lexmoto Gladiator crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 18 November 2014
14 m awayRef 201420G502144
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 10 August 2025
43 m awayRef 2025201628361
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 14 November 2004
184 m awayRef 200420G110401
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 26 September 1988
194 m awayRef 19882000G1547
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 5 August 1997
199 m awayRef 19972097G1135
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 30 March 2008
206 m awayRef 200820G023601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
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 200320G010701 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 2003.