B4169 crash in Sandwell on 12 October 2004 at 20:18 involving a Ford Cougar
A Ford Cougar and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B4169 in Sandwell at 20:18 on Tuesday 12 October 2004. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2004
- Tuesday, 20:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Cougar and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.4986, longitude -1.97669, in the B66 postcode district and within the built-up area of Smethwick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Smethwick, Sandwell, B66 1DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420K123102
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4169
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 2 May 2003.
Slight
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the B4169 in Sandwell, 2 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K051802
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 June 2011
14 m awayRef 201120K007581
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 April 2021
17 m awayRef 2021201047520
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4169 in Sandwell, 27 March 2022
18 m awayRef 2022201248322
Slight
Car crash on the B4169 in Sandwell, 14 May 2024
19 m awayRef 2024201443569
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 16 December 1998
22 m awayRef 199820K257301
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Cougar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,544 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200420K123102 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 2004.