Serious B4173 crash in Dudley on 11 March 2005 at 00:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4173 in Dudley at 00:50 on Friday 11 March 2005. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 32-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Mar 2005
- Friday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.48446, longitude -2.08229, in the DY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Netherton & Holly Hall, Dudley, DY2 9ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520J024401
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4173
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B4173 in Dudley, 30 May 2014
14 m awayRef 201420J006324
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B4173 in Dudley, 23 July 2002
20 m awayRef 200220J080901
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B4173 in Dudley, 9 August 2008
41 m awayRef 200820J065201
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the B4173 in Sandwell, 9 December 2003
60 m awayRef 200320K524202
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B4173 in Dudley, 12 November 2006
91 m awayRef 200620J097501
Slight
Renault 18 crash on the B4173 in Dudley, 23 September 1990
100 m awayRef 19902090J1637
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200520J024401 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.