A34 crash in Walsall on 27 September 2012 at 10:00 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A34 in Walsall at 10:00 on Thursday 27 September 2012. The 43-year-old male driver of the other vehicle, a male passenger in the other vehicle and a female passenger in the other vehicle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2012
- Thursday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6144, longitude -2.0044, in the WS3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bloxwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harden, Goscote & Ryecroft, Walsall, WS3 3JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220H008002
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 34
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4210
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A34 in Walsall, 15 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199820H178701
Slight
Daewoo Nexia crash on the A34 in Walsall, 23 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200720H021702
Slight
Car crash on the A34 in Walsall, 17 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199920H036002
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A34 in Walsall, 8 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200420H056802
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A34 in Walsall, 26 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201020H003750
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A34 in Walsall, 14 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200520H020702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 201220H008002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2012.