Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B68 on 23 July 2009 at 09:54 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus crashed on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 09:54 on Thursday 23 July 2009. A 60-year-old female passenger 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
- 23 Jul 2009
- Thursday, 09:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47856, longitude -1.99614, in the B68 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Warley, Sandwell, B68 9DS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200920K062602
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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, 72 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 1 September 1996
72 m awayRef 19962096K1627
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 15 November 1991
72 m awayRef 19912091K2036
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 24 December 2000
91 m awayRef 200020K149002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 7 September 1980
152 m awayRef 19802000K1880
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 6 July 1983
152 m awayRef 19832000K1758
Slight
Opel Manta crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell, 9 June 1997
152 m awayRef 19972097K0982
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 11,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 60, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 200920K062602 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 2009.