B4171 crash in Dudley on 31 May 2004 at 18:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Metrocab Metrocab taxi were involved in a crash on the B4171 in Dudley at 18:00 on Monday 31 May 2004. The 48-year-old male driver of the Metrocab Metrocab taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2004
- Monday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Metrocab Metrocab
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50344, longitude -2.07392, in the DY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. Thomas's, Dudley, DY2 8LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420J060401
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4171
- 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
- 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 6 September 2011.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the B4171 in Dudley, 6 September 2011
At the same spotRef 201120J009761
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the B4171 in Dudley, 4 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201520J005875
Serious
Volkswagen Bora crash on the B4171 in Dudley, 4 January 2017
6 m awayRef 2017200159831
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 9 February 2021
9 m awayRef 2021201057750
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 25 January 2006
14 m awayRef 200620J011201
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4171 in Dudley, 16 May 2020
15 m awayRef 2020200957422
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Metrocab Metrocab
Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Metrocab Metrocab)
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 200420J060401 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.