B4179 crash in Dudley on 5 March 2003 at 15:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B4179 in Dudley at 15:00 on Wednesday 5 March 2003. The 23-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 5 Mar 2003
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.489, longitude -2.12986, in the DY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brierley Hill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockmoor & Pensnett, Dudley, DY5 1PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320J024501
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4179
- 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 14 January 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 14 January 2014
At the same spotRef 201420J001064
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 21 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200220J056601
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 15 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199920J005701
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 24 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199920J010701
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 25 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200220J034901
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4179 in Dudley, 15 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200220J006701
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200320J024501 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 2003.