Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B67 on 1 July 2003 at 15:10 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 15:10 on Tuesday 1 July 2003. The 38-year-old female driver of the Rover 400 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2003
- Tuesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4844, longitude -1.9901, in the B67 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B67 6RJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200320K074602
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
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 200320K074602 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 2003.