A4037 crash in Sandwell on 20 November 2007 at 18:14 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A4037 in Sandwell at 18:14 on Tuesday 20 November 2007. The 20-year-old female driver of the Citroen Saxo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2007
- Tuesday, 18:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54552, longitude -2.05762, in the DY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Princes End, Sandwell, DY4 0AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200720K098301
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4037
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 2010.
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 31 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201020K024511
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 23 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200620K029701
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 21 June 2016
2 m awayRef 2016200082645
Slight
Mini One crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 28 December 2018
5 m awayRef 2018200810851
Slight
Volvo crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 4 July 2022
5 m awayRef 2022201219028
Serious
Van crash on the A4037 in Sandwell, 5 December 1987
14 m awayRef 19872000K1908
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
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 200720K098301 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 2007.