Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY8 on 20 December 2007 at 08:30 involving a Vauxhall Combo van
A Vauxhall Combo van and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 08:30 on Thursday 20 December 2007. The 37-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.46642, longitude -2.14319, in the DY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Amblecote, Dudley, DY8 4DF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J500202
- Council area
- Dudley
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 29 September 2002
14 m awayRef 200220J082902
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 10 August 1998
40 m awayRef 199820J138401
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 November 1996
104 m awayRef 19962096J1967
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 2 January 1998
108 m awayRef 199820J008101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 1 October 1982
122 m awayRef 19822000J2040
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 14 August 2002
144 m awayRef 200220J071202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200720J500202 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.