Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV10 on 25 December 2007 at 14:19 involving a Vauxhall Vectra taxi
A Vauxhall Vectra taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 14:19 on Tuesday 25 December 2007. A 2-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2007
- Tuesday, 14:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.62152, longitude -2.13173, in the WV10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bushbury North, Wolverhampton, WV10 6SE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720G500901
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Gas bi-fuel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 2, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 200720G500901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2007.