Unclassified road crash in Dudley B63 on 16 March 2005 at 14:40 involving a Rover Metro
Two Rover Metros were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 14:40 on Wednesday 16 March 2005. A 70-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2005
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45318, longitude -2.08443, in the B63 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halesowen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belle Vale, Dudley, B63 2BG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520J020202
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 March 2003.
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 March 2003
14 m awayRef 200320J024802
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 March 2023
42 m awayRef 2023201301223
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 March 1996
63 m awayRef 19962096J0495
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 18 January 1982
63 m awayRef 19822000J0105
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 16 September 1994
63 m awayRef 19942094J5278
Slight
MG Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 4 August 1995
63 m awayRef 19952095J1124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover Metro)
- 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 200520J020202 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 2005.