B4170 crash in Sandwell on 28 November 2005 at 10:21 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van crashed on the B4170 in Sandwell at 10:21 on Monday 28 November 2005. The 37-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2005
- Monday, 10:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.49303, longitude -2.01529, in the B69 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Langley, Sandwell, B69 4QN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200520K121102
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4170
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2022.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B4170 in Sandwell, 5 November 2022
20 m awayRef 2022201245752
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B4170 in Sandwell, 20 November 2023
44 m awayRef 2023201420214
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 8 January 1992
64 m awayRef 19922092K0072
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 January 1983
78 m awayRef 19832000K0096
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 18 August 1982
78 m awayRef 19822000K2059
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 July 1996
78 m awayRef 19962096K1287
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,151 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
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 200520K121102 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 2005.