Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY8 on 20 December 2007 at 15:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 15:20 on Thursday 20 December 2007. The 17-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45758, longitude -2.17216, in the DY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wollaston & Stourbridge Town, Dudley, DY8 3RS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720J500402
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2001.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 2 November 2001
63 m awayRef 200120J142502
Slight
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 27 June 2005
114 m awayRef 200520J050502
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 8 February 2005
124 m awayRef 200520J013002
Serious
Car crash on the A458 in Dudley, 18 June 1980
180 m awayRef 19802000J1189
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 2 May 1996
201 m awayRef 19962096J0707
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A458 in Dudley, 23 May 1993
206 m awayRef 19932093J0700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200720J500402 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.