A4041 crash in Sandwell on 12 December 2008 at 16:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A car, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A4041 in Sandwell at 16:50 on Friday 12 December 2008. The 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2008
- Friday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Corsa and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54355, longitude -1.95027, in the B43 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Bromwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charlemont & Grove Vale, Sandwell, B43 6AT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200820K103201
- Council area
- Sandwell
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4041
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- 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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 2021.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 21 September 2021
12 m awayRef 2021201133397
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4041 in Sandwell, 8 March 2001
22 m awayRef 200120K077201
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4041 in Sandwell, 8 July 2013
22 m awayRef 201320K007973
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 20 January 2015
50 m awayRef 201520K003315
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A4041 in Sandwell, 8 May 2004
61 m awayRef 200420K046501
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A4041 in Sandwell, 5 September 2016
69 m awayRef 2016200114396
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 200820K103201 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 2008.