A4037 crash in Sandwell on 22 December 2004 at 02:40 involving a Leyland DAF FT 85CF lorry
A car and a Leyland DAF FT 85CF lorry were involved in a crash on the A4037 in Sandwell at 02:40 on Wednesday 22 December 2004. The 48-year-old female driver of the car 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 02:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Leyland DAF FT 85CF
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.52942, longitude -2.07706, in the DY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tipton Green, Sandwell, DY4 8HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200420K129101
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4037
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 457
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 1 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200120K052901
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 7 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200020K087101
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 7 June 2018
1 m awayRef 2018200326391
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 19 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025201670911
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 17 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200320K041501
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on the A457 in Sandwell, 29 December 2021
11 m awayRef 2021201138782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF FT 85CF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200420K129101 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.