A4168 crash in Dudley on 2 March 2004 at 09:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A4168 in Dudley at 09:40 on Tuesday 2 March 2004. The 52-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta, a 36-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta and a male passenger in the Ford Fiesta were 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
- 2 Mar 2004
- Tuesday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.51233, longitude -2.08411, in the DY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. James's, Dudley, DY2 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420J025401
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4168
- 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
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 5 November 1985
10 m awayRef 19852000J2470
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 21 August 2003
22 m awayRef 200320J083601
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 10 July 1998
28 m awayRef 199820J121801
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 19 October 2007
36 m awayRef 200720J086701
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 27 November 2012
36 m awayRef 201220J012962
Slight
Car crash on the A4168 in Dudley, 29 November 2012
36 m awayRef 201220J013032
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200420J025401 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 2004.