A4101 crash in Dudley on 1 July 2007 at 23:50 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a Yamaha R6 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4101 in Dudley at 23:50 on Sunday 1 July 2007. The 19-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and the 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha R6 motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2007
- Sunday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Yamaha R6
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50239, longitude -2.14139, in the DY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswinford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockmoor & Pensnett, Dudley, DY5 4ED area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J056001
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4101
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 23 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200220J503502
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 21 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200620J065902
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 10 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200520J018502
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 28 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200420J046902
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 10 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200120J117601
Slight
BMW Z4 crash on the A4101 in Dudley, 12 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200820J049902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha R6
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha R6)
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 200720J056001 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 2007.