Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV2 on 17 December 2004 at 20:15 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 20:15 on Friday 17 December 2004. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2004
- Friday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.57093, longitude -2.09986, in the WV2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bilston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall North, Wolverhampton, WV2 2LY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420G097202
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 December 1987.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 21 December 1987
36 m awayRef 19872000G2035
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 10 March 1989
36 m awayRef 19892000G0511
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 5 November 1991
36 m awayRef 19912091G1737
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 4 December 1990
36 m awayRef 19902090G2086
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 18 September 1987
36 m awayRef 19872000G1379
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 16 July 1987
36 m awayRef 19872000G1052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 200420G097202 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 2004.