Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV4 on 9 December 2008 at 16:56 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 16:56 on Tuesday 9 December 2008. The 22-year-old male driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 16:56
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56553, longitude -2.11253, in the WV4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ettingshall South & Spring Vale, Wolverhampton, WV4 6SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820G070602
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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 20 July 1998.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
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 200820G070602 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2008.