A4031 crash in Walsall on 30 December 2004 at 21:30 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A Vauxhall Omega and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A4031 in Walsall at 21:30 on Thursday 30 December 2004. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and a 21-year-old male passenger in the Ford Mondeo 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2004
- Thursday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Omega and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56162, longitude -1.97533, in the WS5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Walsall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Palfrey & The Delves, Walsall, WS5 4PN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420H501101
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4031
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2004.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A4031 in Walsall, 28 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200420H069801
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A4031 in Walsall, 17 December 2016
1 m awayRef 2016200143902
Slight
Car crash on the A4031 in Walsall, 1 October 2016
3 m awayRef 2016200117092
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Walsall, 3 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200520H072201
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4031 in Walsall, 6 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199820H091401
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A4031 in Walsall, 21 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200420H084101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Mondeo)
- 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 200420H501101 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2004.