A461 crash in Dudley on 19 September 2007 at 13:40 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a Skoda Octavia taxi were involved in a crash on the A461 in Dudley at 13:40 on Wednesday 19 September 2007. The 33-year-old male driver of the Skoda Octavia taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 2007
- Wednesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50532, longitude -2.08188, in the DY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dudley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St. James's, Dudley, DY2 7AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J077001
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2009.
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A461 in Dudley, 15 May 2009
20 m awayRef 200920J042301
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 18 August 1987
89 m awayRef 19872000J1089
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 1 July 1990
89 m awayRef 19902090J1146
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 3 October 1991
89 m awayRef 19912091J1581
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 23 March 1996
89 m awayRef 19962096J0506
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 7 February 2003
98 m awayRef 200320J014901
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 11,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Octavia)
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 200720J077001 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.