Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV10 on 27 December 2012 at 18:27 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 18:27 on Thursday 27 December 2012. The 62-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2012
- Thursday, 18:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60428, longitude -2.10451, in the WV10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, WV10 8PG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220G501372
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 460
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2013.
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 18 November 2002
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Rover Metro crash on the A460 in Wolverhampton, 7 January 2003
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
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 201220G501372 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 2012.