Unclassified road crash in Sandwell DY4 on 31 May 2012 at 16:14 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 16:14 on Thursday 31 May 2012. A 41-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2012
- Thursday, 16:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.54687, longitude -2.05423, in the DY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tipton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Princes End, Sandwell, DY4 0AJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201220K006682
- Council area
- Sandwell
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2017.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 201220K006682 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 2012.